1.
[syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sawbuck \Saw"buck`\, n.
1. A sawhorse.
[1913 Webster]
2. [Colloq., from the Roman X for ten, like the support of a
sawbuck.] a ten-dollar bill; also,
double sawbuck, a twenty-dollar bill.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n.
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on
which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called
also buck, and sawbuck.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sawbuck
n 1: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn:
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "sawbuck":
C, C-note, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, clotheshorse,
copper, dime, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish,
five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill,
five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin,
grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, horse,
hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill, nickel, penny, quarter,
red cent, sawhorse, silver dollar, skin, smacker, ten cents,
ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, trestle,
trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework,
trestling, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits,
two-dollar bill, two-spot, workhorse, yard