sawhorse

American  

[saw-hawrs] / ˈsɔˌhɔrs /

noun

1. a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.

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sawhorse British  

/ ˈsɔːˌhɔːs /

noun

1. a stand for timber during sawing

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Etymology

Origin of sawhorse

First recorded in 1770–80; saw ¹ + horse

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Example Sentences

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sawhorse

I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018

Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

“Pavlova’s Dawg” also functions as a fine pivot between Vincent Fecteau’s shadow-box collage and Charles Ray’s stack of bricks lashed with a thick rope to a well-used sawhorse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2016

You never know when you might need some needle-nose pliers or a foldable sawhorse or a heavy-duty ratcheting tie-down.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2016

There was a sawhorse, and there were three different-sized woodpiles, one of big pieces, one of middle-sized pieces, and one of little pieces for kindlings, all ranked perfectly.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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