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sawhorse

noun as in trestle

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About 100 feet of sawhorse barrier lined the entrance to Hillside Middle School here in Manchester, N.H., unintentionally evincing the divide in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

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She launched her ambitious hobby project last April and devotes a few hours daily to building it on a 6-by-6-foot wood slab base atop two sawhorses inside her home office.

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I walked around toward a big blackberry bush and found some dirty sawhorses next to a bunch of stumps.

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On a recent visit to what used to be Seattle’s downtown Banana Republic store, a chop saw and large pieces of plywood on sawhorses awaited at the entrance.

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To repair the bottom of a door, you’d need to be able to work on the bottom edge, which involves removing the door and setting it on sawhorses or a worktable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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