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Sawpit

noun
1.
A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw.






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"Sawpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... advice of Captain Sinclair, considerably enlarged beyond the size originally intended. As Mr Campbell paid the soldiers employed a certain sum per day for their labour, he had less scruple in employing them longer. Two of them were good carpenters, and a sawpit had been dug, that they might prepare the doors and the frames for the window-sashes which Mr Campbell had taken the precaution to bring with him. On the third day a boat arrived from the fort bringing the men's rations and a present of two fine bucks from the commandant. Captain ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat



Words linked to "Sawpit" :   pit, cavity



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