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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

... sense-knowledge, till Hume showed how this road led to a denial of miracle and in philosophy to a fundamental skepticism. Berkeley reverted to the ideal philosophy, and there seemed but a continuance of the eternal seesaw of metaphysics. ...

— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam

... wedged it faster in the orifice. The inconstant ladder swayed from it as a fulcrum. Again and again by art and endeavor and angle of push he essayed, and the ladder made sport of it. It was deadly sport, that swing and seesaw on the slippery rungs in the immeasurable loneliness of the silent, shrouded cabin. It was no rush of air, sending life tingling in the blood made brilliant with carmine of oxidation, but the dense, mephitic sough of the thick wool of water. He descended and sat upon the floor to ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various

... to face, holding each other's hands. Two others also face each other holding hands across the other two. They seesaw backward and forward, singing the ...

— My Book of Indoor Games • Clarence Squareman

... these aspects: hence the mistakes they make and the erroneous judgments they pass both on what is going on around them and on what they are doing themselves. We proceed from this erroneous judgment to the correct one, we waver between the possible meaning and the real, and it is this mental seesaw between two contrary interpretations which is at first apparent in the enjoyment we derive from an equivocal situation. It is natural that certain philosophers should have been specially struck ...

— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson

... the playground should be provided—a sand-heap, a seesaw, a substantial wheel-barrow, hoops, balls, reins and perhaps skipping-ropes. Something on which the child can balance, logs or planks which they can move about, and a trestle on which these can be supported, are invaluable. It was while an addition was being made to our place that we ...

— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

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