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Seesaw

noun

A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end. Synonyms: dandle board, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board.

verb

(past & past part. seesawad; pres. part. seesawing)

Ride on a plank. Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter.

Move up and down as if on a seesaw.

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion. Synonyms: teeter, totter.

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"Seesaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... be made. When one administration has almost wrecked the ship, as in the Caserta marriage, the other comes in peacefully, and sets the public mind at rest; both parties wish for peace and quietness, and no more revolutions, and the political seesaw keeps the helm fairly straight in ordinary weather. To what extent the insane and disastrous policy which led to the war with America by its shilly-shally treatment of Cuba, now promising autonomy, now putting ...

— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street

... of tearful nights, the pleadings, the reproaches, the seesaw of hope and despair, need not here be dwelt upon. They would make an old story, and some of the details might be shocking to the young person. They reached a culmination one day when she said ...

— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens

... draft was posted; old and young promiscuously—a list worked out in the office amidst a seesaw of intrigue. Protests were raised, and fell back again into ...

— Light • Henri Barbusse

... thrown into the town, and the struggle for the railway, which lasted a week, appears to have been of a seesaw nature, for no official reports of the fighting were issued by either side. Still the Austrians pushed westward in the hope of reaching the railways which supplied those Russian armies which were barring the advance through the central passes. The Russians were forced to withdraw from Stanislawow, ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... conceal any little fancy he had about this girl or that unless he wanted to be considered soft by the other fellows. When they were having fun they did not want to have any girls around; but in the back-yard a boy might play teeter or seesaw, or some such thing, with his sisters and their friends, without necessarily losing caste, though such things were not encouraged. On the other hand, a boy was bound to defend them against anything that he thought slighting or insulting; and you did not have to verify the fact that anything ...

— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells

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