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sawyer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sawyer has 2 senses
- sawyer(n = noun.person) Array - one who is employed to saw wood; Array is a kind of jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer
- sawyer(n = noun.animal) sawyer beetle - any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers; Array is a kind of long-horned beetle, longicorn, longicorn beetle
Derived form verb saw1
is a member of genus monochamus, monochamus
has particulars: pine sawyer
CIDE DICTIONARY
sawyer, n. [Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.].
- One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer. [1913 Webster]
- A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [1913 Webster]
- The bowfin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sawyer, n.
1 a person who saws timber professionally.
2 US an uprooted tree held fast by one end in a river.
3 NZ a large wingless horned grasshopper whose grubs bore in wood.
1 a person who saws timber professionally.
2 US an uprooted tree held fast by one end in a river.
3 NZ a large wingless horned grasshopper whose grubs bore in wood.
Etymology
ME, earlier sawer, f. SAW(1)
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