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Examples
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Across the lake, a mile above a roaring torrent, they located a patch of spruce and built their saw-pit.
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Thrice, on the night-shift, underneath in the saw-pit, Old Tarwater fainted.
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A saw-pit and granite hub remind me of a time of self sufficiency when tree trunks were sawn and wooden cart wheels rimmed in iron.
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How I knew I know not now — only that I slunk away, without a tear, or thought of weeping, and hid me in a saw-pit.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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And here it was, blocking up the doors, stopping the ways, and the water courses, and making it very much worse to walk than in a saw-pit newly used.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Early and late, Moffat was to be found at work, -- in the saw-pit, at the blacksmith's forge, or exercising his skill at the carpenter's bench; in all ways aiding and encouraging his younger companions.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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He set up first what he called a saw-pit, two big "horses," each made by driving fir poles into the ground and crossing them and laying other sapling across these.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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Kilkenny cats in the saw-pit, which fought, until nothing remained of either but the tail and a bit of the flue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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"No want of variety," said Jack; "if you do not like the saw-pit, you can have the tannery."
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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The white horse was buried in the saw-pit in the Laine's wood.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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