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Seesaw   /sˈisˌɔ/   Listen
Seesaw

verb
(past & past part. seesawad; pres. part. seesawing)
1.
Ride on a plank.  Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter.
2.
Move up and down as if on a seesaw.
3.
Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.  Synonyms: teeter, totter.





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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


Words linked to "Seesaw" :   move, toy, dandle board, teeterboard, play, playground, plaything


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