Meanings
plural sawhorses
- A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.
1 more example
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 over, or pushed through, blockaders.
1984 December 8, Loie Hayes, “Lesbians, Feminists Take It To Wall Street”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 3Synonyms: sawbuck, saw-stool, saw-trestle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
- Proto-Germanic*sagǭ
- Proto-West Germanic*sagā
- Old Englishsaga
- Middle Englishsawe
- Englishsaw
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥sós?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁wers-?
- Proto-Indo-European*wers-
- Proto-Indo-European*wérsēn
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*(w)ŕ̥šā
- Proto-Iranian*(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
- Proto-Germanic*hrussą
- Proto-West Germanic*hross
- Old Englishhors
- Middle Englishhors
- Englishhorse
- Englishsawhorse
Translations
Bulgarian магаре
- магаре (magare)device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Catalan cavallet
- cavalletdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Czech koza
- kozadevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Dutch bok, zaagbok
- bokdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
- zaagbokdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Finnish pukki, sahapukki
- pukkidevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
- sahapukkidevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
French tréteau
- tréteaudevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
German Sägebock
- Sägebockdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Greek καβαλέτο
- καβαλέτο (kavaléto)device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Irish binse sábhadóireachta
- binse sábhadóireachtadevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Italian cavalletto
- cavallettodevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Japanese 馬
- 馬 (uma)device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Korean 말
- 말 (mal)device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Polish kozioł, koziołek
- koziołdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
- koziołekdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Portuguese cavalete
- cavaletedevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Romanian capră
- caprădevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Russian ко́злы
- ко́злы (kózly)device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Spanish burro
- burrodevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Swedish sågbock
- sågbockdevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
Welsh march llifio
- march llifiodevice used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material
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Cite this entry
sawhorse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawhorse
“sawhorse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawhorse. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sawhorse,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawhorse.
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