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Webster 1913 Edition
Sawyer
1.
One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
2.
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.
[U.S.]
3.
(Zool.)
The bowfin.
[Local, U.S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Sawyer
SAW'YER
, n.1.
One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel.2.
In America, a tree which, being undermined by a current of water, and falling into the stream, lies with its branches above water, which are continually raised and depressed by the force of the current, from which circumstance the name is derived. The sawyers in the Mississippi render the navigation dangerous, and frequently sink boats which run against them.Definition 2024
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English
Proper noun
Sawyer
- An occupational surname for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A city/town in Kansas.
- A ghost town in Nebraska.
- A city/town in North Dakota.
- A town in Oklahoma.
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See also: Sawyer
English
Two sawyers working a saw pit in Zambia, 2007
Alternative forms
- sawier (obsolete)
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
- A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
- (US, dialect) The bowfin.
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Translations
one who saws timber
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