sawyer

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Two sawyers working a saw pit in Zambia, 2007

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Etymology

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From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw +‎ -yer. Doublet of sawer.

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Noun

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sawyer (plural sawyers)

  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
  3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. (US, dialect) The bowfin.

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  • 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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