sawhorse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sawhorse
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About 100 feet of sawhorse barrier lined the entrance to Hillside Middle School here in Manchester, N.H., unintentionally evincing the divide in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
“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
On the way I stub my toe on a sawhorse, but manage to swallow the ouch.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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