sawpit
- a variation of saw pit.
Example Sentences
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Earlier in the day, Armstrong was watching helicopters dip large buckets into a sawpit debris basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a sawpit in the yard, a favourite hiding-place for the boys, and the turpentiny scent of fresh sawdust had always been a thing to conjure with in the Solitary's memory.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
He had now three children of his own, and the necessity of eschewing skittles, and presiding over the sawpit, became urgent.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
His prologue or preamble, entitled "An Answer to some attacks in Robinson's Life of Picton," although redolent of "slugs in a sawpit," is full of the national humour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
