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saw·yer (yər)

noun

  1. a person whose work is sawing wood, as into planks and boards
  2. ☆ a log or tree caught in a river so that its branches saw back and forth with the water
  3. ☆ any of a genus (Monochamus) of brown-and-gray, long-horned beetles whose larvae burrow into wood

Etymology: ME sawier for sawere, with -ier < OFr suffix -ier: see clothier, lawyer

sawyer Usage Examples

Converse of object

age: In 1871 he was given as a sawyer aged 63 living in Mousehold, Thorpe with his wife Priscilla ( 52 ).

Modifies a noun

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  • glacier: South sawyer glacier unwilling to be next year rci of everything there.

Noun used with modifier

  • tom: Customer Rating: Review Summary: tom sawyer Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
  • head: Millstone dressed c.1925 - 1937: Jack Cotton, head sawyer, Suffield.

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