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seesaw definition

see·saw (sē′sô′)

noun

  1. a plank balanced on a support at the middle, used by children at play, who ride the ends so that when one goes up, the other comes down
  2. the act of riding a plank in this way
  3. any up-and-down or back-and-forth movement or change, as in the lead in a competition

Etymology: redupl. of saw: from the action of sawing

adjective

moving up and down or back and forth

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to move on or as on a seesaw

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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