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sawhorses

sawhorses is the plural of sawhorse.

Meaning of sawhorse

Noun

sawhorse (plural sawhorses)

  1. A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.
    • The sit-in Monday began around 9 a.m. after a spirited march through the financial district […] Though police had set up sawhorses at all five entrances to the Stock Exchange, women sat down in the pathways left open by police and attempted to talk with stock traders and others as they stepped...1984 December 8, Loie Hayes, “Lesbians, Feminists Take It To Wall Street”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 3

Questions about sawhorses

What is sawhorses the plural of?
Sawhorses is the plural of sawhorse.

Words near sawhorses in the dictionary

  1. sawgrinders
  2. Sawh
  3. Sawhney
  4. Sawhneys
  5. sawhorse
  6. sawhorses
  7. Sawhs
  8. Sawi
  9. Sawicki
  10. Sawickis
  11. sawier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sawhorses (page history and authors); sawhorse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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