sawhorse

IPA: sˈɔhɔrs

A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.

Examples of "sawhorse" in Sentences

"A sawhorse is a thing they saw boards on," remarked Jim, with a sniff.
At the centennial, they segued into an old sawhorse: John Lennon's "Imagine."
If need be, bolt it to a short 2x12 piece of lumber and set it across a folding sawhorse.
Charlie was seated behind his desk, an unpainted door held up on one end by a sawhorse and the other by a chipped file cabinet.
The cabinet was several inches shorter than the sawhorse, and so a book entitled Colonoscopic Procedures had been wedged underneath.
Hickman had come up with the idea in 1961 after damaging a pricey Swedish armchair from Heal's while using it as an improvised sawhorse.
Visiting the Google headquarters, he was taken aback by the scene: people working at haphazardly placed sawhorse desks and the director of engineering, Urs Hölzle, playing a high-tech game of fetch with his huge dog, making the floppy beast chase the beam of a laser pointer.