Definitions for saw-pit

saw-pit saw pit

Saw-Pit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in saw-pit (-aipstw).

Definitions for saw-pit

noun

  1. a place for pit sawing.

Origin of saw-pit

First recorded in 1375-1425, saw pit is from the late Middle English word sawpytt. See saw1, pit1

Examples for saw-pit

Some good pinetrees were brought to the saw-pit, and one laid upon it.

I have mended up the bole that opens into the saw-pit next door; and there is no chance of his escaping.

The white horse was buried in the saw-pit in the Laine's wood.

Friday a poor blind man fell into a saw-pit, to which he was conducted by Sir Clement Cottrell.

"Reds and whites," he said; and the sound of his own voice jarred upon his nerves like the rasping of files in a saw-pit.

Thrice, on the night-shift, underneath in the saw-pit, Old Tarwater fainted.

Then after the logs were rolled on the saw-pit he whipped out the lumber in something less than two days.

Before any trees are cut down, we'll have to dig a saw-pit and find a pit-sawyer.

Being in want of plank I directed a saw-pit to be dug and employed some of the people to saw trees into plank.

Across the lake, a mile above a roaring torrent, they located a patch of spruce and built their saw-pit.

Word Value for saw-pit
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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