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noun

a sawhorse.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; compare Dutch zaagbok

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noun Slang.

a ten-dollar bill.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; so called from the resemblance of the Roman numeral X to the crossbars of a sawbuck¹

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World English Dictionary

sawbuck (ˈsɔːˌbʌk)

—n
1.	(US), (Canadian) a sawhorse, esp one having an X-shaped supporting structure
2.	slang chiefly (US), (Canadian) a ten-dollar bill

[C19: (in the sense: sawhorse) translated from Dutch zaagbok; (in the sense: ten-dollar bill) from the legs of a sawbuck forming the Roman numeral X]

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Word Origin & History

sawbuck

"ten-dollar bill," Amer.Eng. slang, 1850, from resemblance of X (Roman numeral 10) to the ends of a sawhorse. Sawbuck in the sense of "sawhorse" only is attested from 1862 but presumably is older (see saw (n.2)).

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sawbuck definition

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.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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