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saw-pit

saw-pit is the alternative form of sawpit.

Meaning of sawpit

Noun

sawpit (plural sawpits)

  1. A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.
    • [V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of saw-pit

pluralsaw-pits

Questions about saw-pit

What is saw-pit the alternative form of?
Saw-pit is the alternative form of sawpit.

Words near saw-pit in the dictionary

  1. saw-edged
  2. saw-grass
  3. saw-grasses
  4. saw-horse
  5. saw-horses
  6. saw-pit
  7. saw-pits
  8. saw-scaled viper
  9. saw-scaled vipers
  10. saw-stool
  11. saw-stools

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