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sawhorse

[saw-hawrs] / ˈsɔˌhɔrs /
NOUN
trestle
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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

You never know when you might need some needle-nose pliers or a foldable sawhorse or a heavy-duty ratcheting tie-down.

From Washington Post Jan. 31, 2016

On the way I stub my toe on a sawhorse, but manage to swallow the ouch.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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