What is "sawhorses"

Usage examples of "sawhorses".

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.

It sat between the downed sawhorses, and then it was gone, removed to blackness.

The sawhorses leaned, then toppled and the rafter creaked in protest, but Cadderly's counterbalancing weight brought the blanketed block down slowly and quietly.

The stone block was not broken, but her pounding had moved the sawhorses back a few feet.

The sawhorses leaned, then toppled and the rafter creaked in protest, but Cadderly’s counterbalancing weight brought the blanketed block down slowly and quietly.

The area around the rug with its two chairs was blocked off by yellow-painted sawhorses hung with red obstruction lights.

The cops were large and numerous, the sawhorses closely spaced, the squad cars ominously ready.

The rug looked pitifully small in the center of the barricade of sawhorses, cops, cars and curious citizens.

Bandon said, eyeing the twenty-foot openwork structure of spruce strips propped on sawhorses made from peeled logs.

She leaped lightly across the remains of splintered yellow sawhorses to the rug.

He seized a roofing lath from one of the piles propped up on sawhorses, but did not strike out at Harras, who tense and unbarking was testing the strength of his chain.

August Pokriefke in wooden shoes moved the sawhorses out of the way, cleaned up Harras' droppings, swept and raked the yard, grooving the sand with patterns that were not even ugly, but more on the strong, simple side.

Several times, laden with sawhorses, he stood beside the artist, accompanied words of criticism or praise with crackling glue fingers, spoke in elaborate detail about a painter who had used to come to Koshnavia summer after summer and had painted Osterwick Lake, the church at Schlangenthin, made oil portraits of a few Koshnavian types, such as Joseph Butt from Annafeld, Musolf the tailor from Damerau, and the widow Wanda Jentak.

Tulla bounces up and down on planks laid over sawhorses: "Sheeny, sheeny!

I blocked off the motel parking lot with sawhorses and deputized a couple of unemployed chicken processors to fend off the tourists for the rest of the day.