Synonyms of the word sawbuck


SAWBUCKBUCK - FRAME - FRAMEWORK - FRAMING - HORSE - SAWHORSE

sawbuck

  • n. a framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.
  • n. (US, slang) a ten-dollar bill.

buck

  • n. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the…
  • n. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  • n. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  • n. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  • n. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  • n. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  • n. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
  • n. (US, slang) One hundred.
  • n. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object,…
  • n. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  • n. (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
  • n. (informal) A euro.
  • n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • n. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal…
  • n. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
  • v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
  • v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down…
  • v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  • v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together,…
  • v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  • v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal;…
  • v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb…
  • v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  • v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter.
  • n. (Scotland) The beech tree.
  • n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  • v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

frame

  • v. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent…
  • v. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan;…
  • v. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
  • v. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
  • v. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
  • v. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
  • v. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
  • v. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
  • n. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
  • n. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
  • n. The structure of a person's body.
  • n. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
  • n. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
  • n. A context for understanding or interpretation.
  • n. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win)…
  • n. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
  • n. (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but…
  • n. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although…
  • n. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
  • n. (film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of…
  • n. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
  • n. (baseball, slang) An inning.
  • n. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
  • n. (dated) frame of mind; disposition.
  • n. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
  • n. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
  • n. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
  • n. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

framework

  • n. (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  • n. (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  • n. (figuratively, especially in computing) A basic conceptual structure.
  • n. (literally) The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task…

framing

  • v. present participle of frame.

horse

  • n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  • n. Equipment with legs.
  • n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
  • n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
  • n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  • n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
  • n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  • n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
  • v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
  • v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
  • v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
  • v. To take or carry on the back.
  • v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
  • n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

sawhorse

  • n. A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.

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