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sawbuck U.S.|ˈsɔːbʌk|
[ad. Du. zaagbok trestle, saw-horse: cf. saw n.1 and buck n.7]
1. a. = buck n.7
1862Rep. Comm. Patents: Agric. 1861 (U.S.) 141 The sheep is then laid upon his back in a kind of saw-buck. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. vi. (1872) 39 The saddles were peculiar... They consisted of a sort of saw-buck, with a small mattress on it. 1877R. J. Burdette Rise & Fall of Mustache 308 You might as well tell a joke to a sawbuck as to his wife. 1906W. Churchill Coniston 390 He was standing with his foot upon the sawbuck and the saw across his knee. 1920S. Lewis Main Street 83 In back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with..flakes of sawdust. 1948Sat. Even. Post 10 July 83/2 I'd roped everything around the ranch—calves, hounds, horses, fence posts, sawbucks.
b. In full, sawbuck (pack)saddle. A pack-saddle shaped like a sawbuck.
1881E. W. Nye Bill Nye & Boomerang 67 This summer, however, I will get me a little blue jackass and put a sawbuck on his back. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights ii. 12 We skirmished around and found..a sawbuck saddle with kyacks. 1913Outing Jan. 425/1 The most practical equipment for pack animals is the ordinary crosstree or sawbuck pack saddle for all-round use. 1933F. H. Cheley Camping Out 461 While the Government has adopted the aparejo as its pack saddle, the cross-tree or sawbuck is the best one for ordinary use. 1938M. Thompson High Trails of Glacier National Park 138 If you are going on a camping trip you utter an instinctive protest as your packer cinches up the ‘sawbuck’ packsaddle and loads his animal.
2. slang.
a. Ten dollars; a ten-dollar note. Also double sawbuck (a) s.v. double a. A. 6.
In allusion to the x-shaped (Roman x = 10) ends of the sawyer's buck: cf. also buck n.8 dollar.
1850, etc. [see double sawbuck (a) s.v. double a. A. 6]. 1852Oregon Statesman 13 Nov. 1/1 Dod rabbit it, there goes another ‘saw-buck’, on the plag'uey jack. 1870J. H. B. Nowland Early Reminisc. Indianapolis 315 In former years he was ever ready to..risk what he called a ‘sawbuck’ (a ten dollar note), on his success. 1933[see bite n. 1 i]. 1973J. Wambaugh Blue Knight ii. 41, I gave him a ten, which was just like folding up a sawbuck and sticking it in his arm. He'd be in the same shape twelve hours from now.
b. A ten-year prison sentence. Also double sawbuck s.v. double a. A. 6.
1925Flynn's 25 Mar. 511/1 Sawbuck,..a ten-year sentence. 1929Sat. Even. Post 13 Apr. 50/4 A prisoner with ten years brings in a saw-buck. 1938D. Castle Do Your Own Time iii. 28 ‘I'm doing two saw-bucks.’ ‘Oh, yeah? Whatever that is.’ ‘Two ten spots. Twenty years.’ 1945,1950[see double sawbuck (b) s.v. double a. A. 6]. |
