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noun

Seesaw n.

A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

A plank or board adjusted for this play.

A vibratory or reciprocating motion. "He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact."

(Whist.) Same as Crossruff.

verb

Seesaw v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. "He seesaws himself to and fro."

Seesaw v. i. (past & past part. seesawad; pres. part. seesawing) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

adjective

Seesaw adj. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

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Etymology of 'Seesaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seesaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fry, take care! For, as they say in my country, the master may send you to the seesaw!" And Frycollin gulped down his sobs as he gulped down the meat which, in double ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... orifice. The inconstant ladder swayed from it as a fulcrum. Again and again by art and endeavor and angle of push he essayed, and the ladder made sport of it. It was deadly sport, that swing and seesaw on the slippery rungs in the immeasurable loneliness of the silent, shrouded cabin. It was no rush of air, sending life tingling in the blood made brilliant with carmine of oxidation, but the dense, mephitic sough of the thick ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various

... we were to sanction the use of capacious shuttles, ten inches of thread must undergo this chafing and seesaw treatment, and under the above conditions every part of the ten inches must pass up and down two hundred times—treatment that might reasonably be expected to leave little "life" in the thread. But in spite of this tremendous drawback, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 • Various

... arrival there. But whenever Drew thought seriously of the future he had that odd sense of dislocation and loss which he had first known on the night he had seen Don Cazar arrive at the cantina. Don Cazar—Hunt Rennie. Drew Kirby—Drew Rennie. A seesaw to make a man dizzy, or maybe the vertigo he felt was the product of too much sun, dust, ...

— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton

... couldn't sleep with a light so I blew out the candle, and in about two minutes the steady seesaw snoring resumed. I took the opportunity to empty half the contents of a whisky bottle into the spittoon, and after lighting a pipe proceeded to clink a tumbler at steady intervals as evidence of debauch well ...

— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy

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