Sawbuck

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sawbuck
       n : a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: {sawhorse},
            {horse}, {buck}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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