sawbuck

double sawbuck

A nickname for the US $20 bill. I don't get paid till next week—any chance you can loan me a double saw?
See also: double, sawbuck

sawbuck

slang A 10-dollar bill. A sawbuck is another name for a sawhorse (a support on which timber is placed when it is being cut) that has two crossed legs at each end, creating an X, which were featured on old 10-dollar bills as the Roman numeral for 10. Primarily heard in US. I've never laid more than a sawbuck on any bet in my life, and while I've never had any huge winnings, I've never lost more than I'm comfortable parting with, either. This place is great. You can get a full meal, a soft drink, and a dessert for less than a sawbuck!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

double saw(buck)

and double and dub
n. a twenty-dollar bill. (see also sawbuck.) This whole thing only cost a double sawbuck. Can you loan me a dub?
See also: double, sawbuck

sawbuck

n. a ten-dollar bill. (From the time when the 10 was indicated by the Roman numeral X (10), which looks like the crosspiece that supports wood that is being sawed.) It cost me a sawbuck to have my car pulled out of the mud.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • greenback
  • on (one's) bill
  • fill the bill
  • fill the bill, to
  • We were just talking about you
  • foot the bill
  • pick up the bill
  • can't fight City Hall, one/you/they
  • meet one's Waterloo, to
  • fit the bill
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of sites Harvest site characteristics (total n = 30) Percent Contract logger 14 47 Independent logger 12 40 Company crew 4 13 Mechanical harvester (a) 6 20 Grapple skidder (a) 8 27 Sawbuck (a,b) 21 70 Private land 28 93 Forester involvement 22 73 (a) Five of the 30 logging operations ran a mechanical harvester, grapple skidder, and sawbuck and thus are classified as "fully mechanized." (b) A sawbuck, in this context, is a metal-framed stand associated with a circular cutoff saw onto which a tree-length piece of roundwood is loaded using a knuckle-boom at the landing.
Viewing websites on mobile phones can be a slow and painful process, but Sawbuck Mobile is optimized to load quickly on phones with slower connections.
The online broker offers a Sawbuck Savings Guarantee, which promises $1,000 if a customer finds a better mortgage and closing-cost deal.
Sawbuck Outfitters, Box 25, Parlin, CO 81239; (888) 349-2459 or www.coloradohunts.com.
Hayes' originals, Half A Sawbuck and The Sausage Scraper, are catchy and great for blowing through; Angel Eyes provides a chance for the leader to swap his saxophone for vibes.
"the tavern table, the sawbuck table, the hutch cabinet, the settle chair, the Windsor chair --all were built to do a job," he says, "and do it well."
The grapes are intended for Crew Wine's Matchbook and Sawbuck brands.
The sawbuck is held in the open position when the 2-by-4 legs butt up against the top edges of the plywood cross pieces.
A room from which one can view the smartly engineered livestock barn and the homegrown sawbuck log fence beyond it, ending at the edge of an undulating expanse of aspen and conifer trees extending all the way to the base of the Continental Divide.
At Ashcroft (British Columbia), Whelen bought "a saddle horse for $25, two pack horses for $15 each, a stock saddle for $25, two sawbuck saddles for $5, and $25 worth of grub...." The day after a prospector gave him a quick packing lesson, Whelen headed up the Telegraph Trail.
led a $2 million round of financing in the online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty, which Wednesday began rolling out in markets where the Dallas-based company publishes dailies.
The efficiency of bucking and loading central Appalachian hardwood logs was investigated by using a knuckleboom loader together with a sawbuck. Bucked tree stems averaged 15.32 inches in butt diameter with lengths ranging from 19.50 to 106.00 feet.
1,000 or 1,500 pounds per pair - and has a line of accessories that includes a six-outlet plug and slip-on sawbuck for holding logs.
Similarly, the Model 154BK SawBuck is two saws in one: a course saw for slicing soft, dry wood fast, and a fine saw for harder woods.
Still, someone hasn't done their homework if these experts can't come up with a single California wine of spirit and fitnesse for little more than a sawbuck. Maybe the experts don't get out much.