Sawpit

Quick meaning: Sawpit is a noun meaning A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.

Meaning

A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.

Example Sentences

[…] I was full two and forty Days making me a Board for a long Shelf, which I wanted in my Cave; whereas two Sawyers with their Tools, and a Saw-Pit, would have cut ſix of them out of the ſame Tree in half a Day.

[V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]

When master took Atkinson and Warren from the saw pit I was put to work there, but as I was a new hand I did not work well, and master used me very badly for it: it was the first time I ever held a saw; I was never given any regular task, but I did all I could to give satisfaction.

This provision is chiefly requisite in connection with river transit, but the rules could equally be applied to the establishment of sawpits anywhere, where there is the same risk of facilitating timber theft: and they might be applied, for example, to prohibit sawpits being set up in the vicinity of a forest.

Word Forms

• sawpits
• saw-pit
• saw pit

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saw pit, pitsaw, sawier, sawbench, sawbuck, sandpit.

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