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sawbuck (n.)
"ten-dollar bill," American English slang, 1850, from resemblance of X (Roman numeral 10) to the ends of a sawhorse.
Sawbuck
in the sense of "sawhorse" is attested only from 1862 but presumably is older (see
saw
(n.1)).
