10 May 2019
sawbuck(1)
[saw-buhk]
noun
a sawhorse.
Origin of sawbuck(1)
1860–65, Americanism; compare Dutch zaagbok
sawbuck(2)
[saw-buhk]
noun Slang.
a ten-dollar bill.
Origin of sawbuck(2)
1840–50, Americanism; so called from the resemblance of the Roman numeral X to the crossbars of a sawbuck(1)
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Examples from the Web for sawbuck
Historical Examples of sawbuck
“Here’s your ten and costs,” says Pinckney, tossing him a sawbuck.
Shorty McCabe
Sewell Ford
They drove a pack-horse, their supplies loaded on a sawbuck saddle with kyacks.
Oh, You Tex!
William Macleod Raine
Rob threw the sawbuck pack-saddle on top of the padded blanket.
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
Emerson Hough
“It pleases me to say that I pulled a sawbuck out of Emery,” he said.
Frank Merriwell’s Races
Burt L. Standish
The sawbuck followed it, the cinch flying high so that it should go clear.
The Eagle’s Heart
Hamlin Garland
Today’s quote
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
On this day
10 May 1837 – the Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail and unemployment reaches record levels.
10 May 1893 – the Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
10 May 1908 – Mother’s Day first celebrated. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia in the United States becomes the first place in the world to hold the first official Mother’s Day celebration. 407 women were in attendance that day. In 1872 Julie Ward Howe suggested a national holiday to celebrate peace and motherhood. At that time, many local groups held their own celebration of motherhood, but most were religious gatherings. Another influential figure was Anna Jarvis who campaigned for a national holiday following the death of her mother in 1905. Her mother, social activist Ann Jarvis used to hold an annual celebration, Mother’s Friendship Day, to help ease the pain of the US Civil War. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a national holiday on the second Sunday of May. Anna Jarvis was arrested at a Mother’s Day celebration when she tried to stop the selling of flowers. She stated, ‘I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not of profit‘.
10 May 1924 – Edgard J. Hoover appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A position he holds until his death in 1972.
10 May 1933 – in Germany, Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
10 May 1941 – Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, parachutes into Scotland to negotiate a peace settlement between the UK and Germany. Hess was arrested and convicted of crimes against peace and spent the remainder of his life in jail. He died in 1987.
10 May 1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets release Rock Around the Clock, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
10 May 1960 – birth of Bono (Paul David Hewson), activist and Irish singer-songwriter with U2.
10 May 1994 – Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
10 May 2003 – The Golden Gumboot opens in Tully, North Queensland. It stands 7.9m tall and represents the record annual rainfall of 7900mm that Tully received in1950. Tully is officially Australia’s wettest town.