sawyer
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English
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Etymology
From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.
Pronunciation
Noun
sawyer (plural sawyers)
- One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
- (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
- ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’
- A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
- (US, dialect) The bowfin.
Quotations
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, Plume (1988), page 50:
- Up and down the lumberyard fence old roses were dying. The sawyer who had planted them twelve years ago to give his workplace a friendly feel—something to take the sin out of slicing trees for a living—was amazed by their abundance.
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Translations
one who saws timber
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