'Sawbuck' definitions:
Definition of 'sawbuck'
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Definition of 'Sawbuck'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'sawbuck'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'sawbuck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- buck,
- C,
- C-note,
- 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,
- G,
- G-note,
- grand,
- half a C,
- half dollar,
- half G,
- 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