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sawhorse

[saw-hawrs] / ˈsɔˌhɔrs /
NOUN
trestle
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About 100 feet of sawhorse barrier lined the entrance to Hillside Middle School here in Manchester, N.H., unintentionally evincing the divide in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

What’s up with the maid wearing a welding helmet hitting a rubber anvil placed on a sawhorse?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018

Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2017

He practiced on the sawhorse how he would hold the reins in his left hand and a hat in his right hand.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck