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Definition of Seesaw

1. Noun. A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.

2. Verb. Ride on a plank.

3. Verb. Move up and down as if on a seesaw.

4. Verb. Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

Definition of Seesaw

1. n. A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

2. v. i. To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

3. v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

4. a. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

Definition of Seesaw

1. Noun. A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down; a teeter-totter ¹

2. Noun. a series of up-and-down movements. ¹

3. Noun. a series of alternating movements or feelings ¹

4. Verb. To use a seesaw. ¹

5. Verb. To fluctuate ¹

6. Adjective. fluctuating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seesaw

1. to move up and down or back and forth [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seesaw

seeress seeresses seerfish seerhand seers seership seerships seersuckers seerwood sees

sees fit sees in sees through sees to seesaw (current term) seesaw murmur seesaw nystagmus seesawed seesawing seesaws

seest seeth seethe seethed seether seethers seethes seething seethingly

Literary usage of Seesaw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"seesaw in the circumstances which have been of hite engaging the attention of the country, ... seesaw himself, and such as all his friends expected of him. ..."

2. Manual Training--play Problems: Constructive Work for Boys and Girls Based by William Samuel Marten (1917)
"In making the zigzag pole for the falling seesaw or teeter, shown in Fig. ... The seesaw as shown is made reversible. When the beam has worked down to the ..."

3. Ye Outside Fools!: Glimpses Inside the London Stock Exchange by Latham Smith (1877)
"We were now assembled in the drawing-room, and I was introduced to Clara seesaw and Mr. Levi Gusher, the Egyptian special. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1839)
"Solomon seesaw. By JP ROBERTSON, with Illustrations by PHIZ. 3 vols. London : Saunders and Otley. So long as novels hold such a numerical preeminence in the ..."

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