sawhorse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sawhorse
Example Sentences
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My husband made a chute from a 10-foot cardboard tube, which we decorated with streamers and propped on a sawhorse.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
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
What’s up with the maid wearing a welding helmet hitting a rubber anvil placed on a sawhorse?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
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
Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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