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noun

Seesaw n.

A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

A plank or board adjusted for this play.

A vibratory or reciprocating motion. "He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact."

(Whist.) Same as Crossruff.

verb

Seesaw v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. "He seesaws himself to and fro."

Seesaw v. i. (past & past part. seesawad; pres. part. seesawing) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

adjective

Seesaw adj. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

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Etymology of 'Seesaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seesaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... asked me what I was going to do. She didn't appear to be at all struck by the fact that lay at the bottom of my disclosures; that it was her own hand that had caused the mischief, but went on at a wild rate about my approaching 'sentimental seesaw,' as she called it, when my whole time would have to be divided between my two fiancees. She remarked that the old proverb called man a pendulum between a smile and a tear, but that I was the first true case of a human pendulum which she ...

— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille

... who had been playing at teeter with a plank laid over a carpenter's "horse" for a seesaw, ranged themselves all in a row, and gaped their fill at the strange spectacle of a wagonload of boys all dressed ...

— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas

... position at Cedar Creek, to use his own words, "a very bad one," Sheridan was about to retire to the extreme limit of the valley at the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah; and this was but to be the beginning of a series of seesaw movements, in which, as often as Sheridan went back to Halltown, Early would advance to Bunker Hill. Early, having taken the offensive, was bound to keep it, or lose his venture. Now, at this time, Early's ...

— History of the Nineteenth Army Corps • Richard Biddle Irwin

... and it was a seesaw affair all through the first period, play being kept near mid-field most of the time, with the advantage on neither side. Consequently, when after a brief intermission to allow of any necessary changes in the formation of the teams, not required as yet, the crowd was unable to decide ...

— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

... whole endless hour was a seesaw between the past and the present, between his new dignity and his old irresponsibility. He tried—at first with boisterous familiarity, then with ponderous condescension—to draw his friends out. What would Eleanor think of them—the idiots! And what would she ...

— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

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