Definitions for sawbones

sawbones saw·bones

Spelling: [saw-bohnz]
IPA: /ˈsɔˌboʊnz/

Sawbones is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in sawbones (abenossw).

Definitions for sawbones

noun

  1. a surgeon or physician.

Origin of sawbones

1830-40; saw1 + bone + -s3

Examples for sawbones

That sawbones feller is right when he says the progress will be slow.

I am lying here like a poor log because that sawbones and you girls make me.

For many years he had carried in his body a Spanish bullet which the sawbones of his guerrilla band had been unable to extract.

Don't come to me: go t' a sawbones and have your arm cut off.

Having really excited him, instead of soothing him, sawbones Salter had to pretend that you would excite him.

But I kin go to Bullhide for the sawbones in it, and bring him back, too.

That any whipper-snapper of a sawbones should tell me to go to my room.

The boys buried him decent while the sawbones was cuttin' what was left of my arm away, an' puttin' me to sleep with dope.

I was afterwards informed by my "sawbones" friend that play was stopped directly I left.

The sawbones have give it that name, I'm aware, but of course that's their fun.

Word Value for sawbones
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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