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ˈsaw-pit
[f. saw n.1 + pit n.]
a. An excavation in the ground, over the mouth of which a framework is erected on which timber is placed to be sawn with a long two-handled saw by two men, the one standing in the pit and the other on a raised platform.
1408Nottingham Rec. II. 62 Rogerus Parker fecit unum sawpytt in alta via. 1486Ibid. III. 256 For drawyng of þe seid tymber fro þe wrightes to þe sawe pitt. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. iv. 53 Let them from forth a saw-pit rush at once. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. i. 1 To those Docks..belongs their wood-yards, with Saw-pits. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 116 Two Sawyers, with their Tools, and a Saw-Pit would have cut six of them..in half a Day. 1811Moore Mr. Orator Puff iii, He tripped near a sawpit, and tumbled right in. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 476/1 The facility with which sawing whole timber is now done by the aid of the upright saw-frame [etc.], has in large factories and workshops caused the saw-pits to be out of date.
transf. and fig.1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide i. 5 In Satans saw-pit school'd he was. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xii, Every street was a sawpit.
b. N. Amer. A wooden framework serving the function of a saw-pit.
1876H. W. Ravenell in Yale Rev. (1936) XXV. 763 The saw-pit was a rude structure about seven feet high, made of strong posts set in the ground wide enough apart to hold one or two pieces of heavy pine timber, and the sawyers, one above and one beneath, sawed out one hundred feet per day. 1961J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story x. 87 Next they would erect, from smaller trees in the vicinity, what we used to call a saw-pit, which was not really a pit at all but a frame set entirely above the ground. |