seesaw

[see·saw]

A seesaw is a piece of playground equipment made of a board balanced on a center support. To play on a seesaw, you sit on one end with a friend on the other end, moving up and down.

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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.

Noun
a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

Verb
move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

Verb
move up and down as if on a seesaw

Verb
ride on a plank

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.

n.
A plank or board adjusted for this play.

n.
A vibratory or reciprocating motion.

n.
Same as Crossruff.

v. i.
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

v. t.
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

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

Seesaw

See"saw` , n. [Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.] 1. 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. 2. A plank or board adjusted for this play. 3. A vibratory or reciprocating motion.

He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact.

4. (Whist.) Same as Crossruff.

Seesaw

See"saw`, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Seesawad ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seesawing.] To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

Seesaw

See"saw`, v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

He seesaws himself to and fro.

Seesaw

See"saw`, a. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

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.

To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

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

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