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see⋅saw

  [see-saw]
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–noun
1. a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
2. a plank or apparatus for this recreation.
3. an up-and-down or a back-and-forth movement or procedure.
4. Whist. a crossruff.
–adjective
5. moving up and down, back and forth, or alternately ahead and behind: It was a seesaw game with the lead changing hands many times.
–verb (used without object)
6. to move in a seesaw manner: The boat seesawed in the heavy sea.
7. to ride or play on a seesaw.
8. to keep changing one's decision, opinion, or attitude; vacillate.
–verb (used with object)
9. to cause to move in a seesaw manner.
Origin:
1630–40 as part of a jingle accompanying a children's game; gradational compound based on saw 1

Regional variation note:
Although seesaw (def. 2) is the most widely used term in the U.S., teetertotter is also in wide use in the Northern, North Midland, and Western regions. Tilting board and its variants tilt board and tiltering board are New Eng. terms, esp. Eastern New Eng., while tinter and its variant teenter are associated with Western New Eng.
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see·saw   (sē'sô')   
n.  

  1. A long plank balanced on a central fulcrum so that with a person riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down. Also called regionally dandle, dandle board, teedle board, teeter, teeterboard, teeter-totter, tilt1, tilting board. See Regional Note at teeter-totter.

  2. The act or game of riding a seesaw.

  3. A back-and-forth or up-and-down movement, as of the lead between two contesting parties.

intr.v.   see·sawed, see·saw·ing, see·saws

  1. To play on a seesaw.

  2. To move back and forth or up and down.


[Reduplication of saw1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

seesaw 
1640, in see-saw-sacke a downe, words in a rhythmic jingle used by children and repetitive motion workers, probably imitative of the rhythmic back-and-forth motion of sawyers working a two-man saw over wood or stone (see saw). Ref. to a game of going up and down on a balanced plank is recorded from 1704; fig. sense is from 1714. Applied from 1824 to the plank arranged for the game. The verb is from 1712.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

SEESAW language
An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-12-15)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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