Crossword clues for sawhorse
sawhorse
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n. A device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially during cutting with a saw or similar device.
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A saw-horse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) is a beam with four legs used to support a board or plank for sawing. A pair of sawhorses can support a plank, forming a scaffold. In certain circles, it is also known as a mule and a short sawhorse is known as a pony.
The sawhorse may be designed to fold for storage. A sawhorse with a wide top is particularly useful to support a board for sawing or as a field workbench, and is more useful as a single, but also more difficult to store.
A sawhorse can also be used as the base for a portable work table by placing a sheet of plywood or even a door on top of two sawhorses. If the sawhorses are strong enough, the portable table can be used as a platform for tools like a table saw, although with caution if the top is not secured to the sawhorses.
The sawhorse, spelled "saw-horse" in the books, is a character from L. Frank Baum's Oz books series. He first appears in The Marvelous Land of Oz.
Usage examples of "sawhorse".
A cardboard sign on a sawhorse read oficina with an arrowpointing down the hall.
As she flew down the remaining part of the backstretch, he kept her in the middle of the track and away from the wooden sawhorses.
Bandon said, eying the twenty-foot openwork structure of spruce strips propped on sawhorses made from peeled logs.
Can I explain about the whole Fox Movietone era and those girls in tutus jumping over the sawhorses?
Danny drove up it in his civilian car, slowing when he saw a barrier of sawhorses with red blinkers, three black-and-whites parked behind it, their headlights beaming out into a weed-strewn vacant lot.
He found Broadmoor in the open shed, chiseling away on a five-meter-long red cedar log that lay horizontal on four heavy-duty sawhorses.
When they reached the gates of the Emerald City, the Shaggy Man ordered the Sawhorse to stop while he, with the aid of Omby Amby, a bright new nail and a hammer, proudly restored the Love Magnet to its position over the entrance to the city.
The rest of the procession got as close as possible without blocking the bridge, though Sheriff Amory had set up sawhorses with blinking lights along the route.
The entrance to the abandoned property had been blocked by bright orange plastic cones and a sign mounted on a sawhorse designating the entire area as a crime scene.
The approach road was closed off and barricaded with wooden sawhorses, banks of blinking amber lights, and a mobile electronic message board that warned: road closed.
For now, Cadderly figured that he could just drop the block down from the sawhorses, put it on the floor to stop Danica from making her Iron Skull attempt.
A small flat-bottomed boat rested on a couple of sawhorses in the backyard, and a blue tick hound slept in a tight knot in the shade thrown by the boat.
Police in helmets and flak jackets were setting up sawhorse barriers and stretching out yellow tape.
I collected the most valuable of the hand tools—the froe and drawing knife by the sawhorse, the foot adze and broadaxe by the sections of split cedar—stowed them in the old hogpen, and walked into the forest.
The corner of the washroom was stacked with kindling wood, with a big heavy sawhorse in front of it.