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Sawpit

Definition: Sawpit

Sawpit

Noun

1. A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handled saw.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sawpit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Cities: Sawpit


1. Sawpit, CO (town, FIPS 68655)
Location: 37.99481 N, 107.99995 W
Population (1990): 36 (21 housing units)
Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Specialty Definition: Sawpit, Colorado

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sawpit is a town located in San Miguel County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 25.

Geography


Sawpit is located at 37°59'41" North, 108°0'0" West (37.994820, -108.000068)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.1 km² (0.0 mi²). 0.1 km² (0.0 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 25 people, 12 households, and 6 families residing in the town. The population density is 321.8/km² (738.7/mi²). There are 18 housing units at an average density of 231.7/km² (531.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 12 households out of which 25.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% are married couples living together, 0.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% are non-families. 33.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 0.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.08 and the average family size is 2.71. In the town the population is spread out with 20.0% under the age of 18, 0.0% from 18 to 24, 44.0% from 25 to 44, 36.0% from 45 to 64, and 0.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 127.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 122.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $26,250, and the median income for a family is $83,119. Males have a median income of $27,083 versus $0 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,488. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sawpit, Colorado."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sawpit

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sawpit colorado

3

canyon monrovia sawpit

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Sawpit

Misspellings

"Sawpit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salpiti, Sawrij, Shawqi, sowpat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sawpit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pitsaw.

Words within the letters "a-i-p-s-t-w"

-1 letter: pitas, spait, tapis, waist, waits.

-2 letters: aits, past, pats, paws, pias, pita, pits, sati, spat, spit, staw, swap, swat, taps, taws, tips, twas, wait, waps, wasp, wast, wats, wisp, wist, wits.

-3 letters: ais, ait, apt, asp, its, pas, pat, paw, pia, pis, pit, psi, sap, sat, saw, sip, sit, spa, tap, tas, taw, tip, tis, twa, wap, was, wat, wis, wit.

-4 letters: ai, as, at, aw, is, it, pa, pi, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: pitsaws, tawpies, wapitis.

 

+2 letters: pawkiest, waspiest, wiretaps.

 

+3 letters: giftwraps, swampiest, whiptails, whitecaps.

 

+4 letters: paintworks, pantywaist, sprawliest, waitperson.

 

+5 letters: athwartship, pantywaists, playwrights, postweaning, springwater, stewardship, waitpersons, wiretappers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sawpit


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 77 70 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01110111 01110000 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0077 0070 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536789827586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Cities
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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