sawyer

(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

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

See sawyer in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. One that is employed in sawing wood.
  2. Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore large holes in living or dead wood.
  3. See snag. See Regional Note at preacher.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English sauere, sawier

Origin: , from sawen, to saw

Origin: , from sawe, saw; see saw 1

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