seesaw
seesaw definition
see·saw (sē′sô′)
noun
- 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
- the act of riding a plank in this way
- 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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