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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.

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Etymology of 'Seesaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seesaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... is apprehended on the apprehension of a thing distinguished by attributes such as generic character and so on, and at the same time that the thing thus distinguished is apprehended on the apprehension of difference; and this would constitute a logical seesaw.— 'Difference' thus showing itself incapable of logical definition, we are confirmed in our view that perception ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

Words linked to "Seesaw" : teeterboard, playground, toy, teeter, plaything, move, dandle board, teetertotter, play, totter, teeter-totter