Help ze German know vhat zis is, bitte

[German Nightmare]

Hello NSG,

although I've consulted my dictionaries, and even doing a google picture search gave me nothing, I turn to you guys to help me understand what it is:

"The clay earth court which surrounded the orphanage was scattered with wooden structures of children's play. There were slides, teeter-saws and climbing rings, structures that resembled the skeletal carcasses of animals picked clean by scavengers and bleached by sun."

(from "Emperor's Mercy" by Henry Zou)

Slides, swings, rings I know. But I've never heard of a teeter-saw.

What are teeter-saws?

[SaintB]

Hello NSG,

although I've consulted my dictionaries, and even doing a google picture search turned nothing up, I turn to you guys to help me understand what it is:

"The clay earth court which surrounded the orphanage was scattered with wooden structures of children's play. There were slides, teeter-saws and climbing rings, structures that resembled the skeletal carcasses of animals picked clean by scavengers and bleached by sun."

(from "Emperor's Mercy" by Henry Zou)

Slides, swings, rings I know. But I've never heard of a teeter-saw.

What are teeter-saws?

Also known as:
See-Saw or Teeter-Totter

[Yootopia]

I've never heard of them being called a "teeter-saw", we call them see-saws in the UK.

[German Nightmare]

Hello NSG,

although I've consulted my dictionaries, and even doing a google picture search turned nothing up, I turn to you guys to help me understand what it is:

"The clay earth court which surrounded the orphanage was scattered with wooden structures of children's play. There were slides, teeter-saws and climbing rings, structures that resembled the skeletal carcasses of animals picked clean by scavengers and bleached by sun."

(from "Emperor's Mercy" by Henry Zou)

Slides, swings, rings I know. But I've never heard of a teeter-saw.

What are teeter-saws?

Also known as:
See-Saw or Teeter-Totter

Oh! D'oh.

Thanks for clearing that up. (Man, can't believe it's a mix of two words, both unknown to me before. No wonder I don't get it)

[Buffett and Colbert]

[German Nightmare]

I've never heard of them being called a "teeter-saw", we call them see-saws in the UK.

Maybe it's what they're called in the 42^nd century?

[German Nightmare]

Okay, thank you, danke, I know know what it is.

[Yootopia]

I've never heard of them being called a "teeter-saw", we call them see-saws in the UK.

Maybe it's what they're called in the 42^nd century?

Vielleicht... the important thing to know is that anyone who says "teeter-saw" spricht voll Moppelkotze