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A four-legged servant that exists only to die in your place under the blade.
means A four-legged wooden or metal frame used to support a board or plank while you cut, saw, or work on it.
from A plain compound from "saw" (the cutting tool, from Old English "sagu," rooted in a verb meaning to cut) plus "horse" — a long-standing carpenter's habit of calling any straddling, leg-bearing support a "horse," since you sit a plank across its back the way a rider sits a steed. The same logic gave us the gymnast's "vaulting horse" and the "clotheshorse."
- name origin
- Named for resembling a horse you straddle to cut
- sacrificial role
- Sawn into freely; meant to take the damage
- yoga pose
- Inspired a gymnastics and exercise apparatus
- folding kind
- Modern metal versions collapse flat for storage
- pair power
- Two plus a board equals an instant table
sawhorses in woodworking — traditional x-frame cutting supports used by carpenters for centuries, remain the most common workshop tool
military sawhorse barricades — anti-tank obstacles called 'czech hedgehogs' or sawhorse barricades deployed by militaries since wwii, still used for crowd control