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sawpit

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Noun1.sawpit - a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed sawsawpit - a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw
cavity, pit - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
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Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage - as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody - were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
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The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit.
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