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SAWPIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sawpit mean?
• SAWPIT (noun)
The noun SAWPIT has 1 sense:
1. a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw
Familiarity information: SAWPIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("sawpit" is a kind of...):
Context examples
I’ll fight him in a sawpit, or on the outside of a coach if it please you.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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