sawhorse

Questions about sawhorse

What does sawhorse mean?

sawhorse means "a framework for holding wood that is being sawed".

How many syllables are in sawhorse?

sawhorse has 2 syllables and divides as sa-whorse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sawhorse?

Close synonyms include horse, sawbuck, buck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sawhorse a common word?

sawhorse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.