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[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]