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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sawbuck
    n 1: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn:
         sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sawbuck \Saw"buck`\, n.
   1. A sawhorse.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. [Colloq., from the Roman X for ten, like the support of a
      sawbuck.] a ten-dollar bill; also,

   double sawbuck, a twenty-dollar bill.
      [PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n.
   A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on
   which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called
   also buck, and sawbuck.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Sawbuck:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

C, C-note, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, clotheshorse, copper, dime, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, horse, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill, nickel, penny, quarter, red cent, sawhorse, silver dollar, skin, smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, trestle, trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework, trestling, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, workhorse, yard

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