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Definition of Sawbucks
1. sawbuck [n] - See also: sawbuck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawbucks
Literary usage of Sawbucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spiritual Magazine (1875)
"They emerged below the cabinet floor, where they were securely tied, and then
fastened to the "sawbucks" on which the cabinet rested. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"And there are also a choice and blessed few who though their names are not
generally chalked among the ' elevated sawbucks,' still get up among themselves ..."
3. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1901)
"... horizontal ladders, parallel bars, horizontal bars, a Maypole, a woodpile
supplied with axes, saws, sawbucks and logs of different sizes; Indian clubs, ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"... hobbles, sawbucks, alforjas and aparejos, till one is reminded of Artemus
Ward's desperate effort under similar circumstances,—"and sine qua non, too, ..."
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