Definition of Sawbucks

1. Noun. (plural of sawbuck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sawbucks

1. sawbuck [n] - See also: sawbuck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawbucks

saw tooth
saw wood
sawah
sawahs
sawbellies
sawbelly
sawbench
sawbenches
sawbill
sawbills
sawblade
sawblades
sawbones
sawboneses
sawbuck
sawbucks (current term)
sawder
sawdered
sawdering
sawders
sawdust
sawdust circuit
sawdust doll
sawdust saloon
sawdust trail
sawdusted
sawdusts
sawdusty
sawe
sawed

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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