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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 palmetto
  2. saw palmettos
  3. saw past
  4. saw past the end of one's nose
  5. saw past the tip of one's nose
  6. saw pit
  7. saw pits
  8. saw reason
  9. saw red
  10. saw sam sai
  11. saw sense

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