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

Example Sentences

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

What I’m after is out of reach, so I drag over a sawhorse and climb up on it.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick