sawpit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pit over which timber was laid so two workers could saw it lengthwise, one standing above and one below

   The intoxicated driver overturned the cart into an abandoned sawpit.

A compound of saw + pit. Before powered sawmills became widespread, a log could be laid across such a pit and cut with a long pitsaw by an upper sawyer and a lower sawyer working together.

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