sawyer
sawyer definition
saw·yer (sô′yər)
noun
- a person whose work is sawing wood, as into planks and boards
- ☆ a log or tree caught in a river so that its branches saw back and forth with the water
- ☆ 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
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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