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Definition of Seesawed
1. seesaw [v] - See also: seesaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seesawed
Literary usage of Seesawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... torpedo she lost her balance badly, but seesawed till her crew got her safely
to the surface. _ As no other crew could be found to take the risk, ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1898)
"The water-logged sloop seesawed up and down past the bark's side, one moment
rising on a huge comber until I could almost grasp the rail, ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"At last the ancient inn appears, The spreading elm below, Whose flapping sign
these fifty years Has seesawed to and fro. How fair the azure fields in sight ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"... takes me for a mere machine, to be seesawed and whirled hither and thither,
like a rotatory Clothes-horse, to dry his Imperial Majesty's linen upon. ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... takes me for a mere machine, to be seesawed and whirled hither and thither,
like a rotatory Clothes-horse, to dry his Imperial Majesty's linen upon. ..."
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