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Vinony

sawyer

noun

  1. one who saws
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːjə/ / /ˈsɔɪ.ə/ / /ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/

name

Etymology: * As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar. * As a French surname, variant of Seguin.

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
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noun

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

  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.

    “‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’”

  3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. The bowfin.