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For Cowboys, the stage was strewn with sand and gravel; two sawhorses were set up with blinking lights; and a recording made by Shepard and Mingus while driving around New Jersey with a tape recorder provided ambient street sounds for the show.
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Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
The operation went from game assembly on top of plywood and sawhorse tables to offices with hundreds of employees.
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Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2023
The cost of these benches and work aides varies from under $20 for sawhorse brackets to thousands of dollars for a truly beautiful European workbench built out of beech.
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Jack Baruth,
Popular Mechanics,
29 Mar. 2023
So when a crane raised the final beam for the building from its position laying across sawhorses, there was applause.
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Paul Gattis | [email protected],
al,
26 Jan. 2023
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Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
The operation went from game assembly on top of plywood and sawhorse tables to offices with hundreds of employees.
—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2023
The cost of these benches and work aides varies from under $20 for sawhorse brackets to thousands of dollars for a truly beautiful European workbench built out of beech.
—
Jack Baruth,
Popular Mechanics,
29 Mar. 2023
So when a crane raised the final beam for the building from its position laying across sawhorses, there was applause.
—
Paul Gattis | [email protected],
al,
26 Jan. 2023
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“Sawhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sawhorse. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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sawhorse
noun
saw·horse
ˈsȯ-ˌhȯ(ə)rs 
: a frame on which wood is laid for sawing by hand
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