sawyer
sawyer Lexical Profile
sawyer Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A person whose occupation is sawing timber into planks or boards, or operating a sawmill.
"The head sawyer carefully inspected the massive oak log before feeding it into the mill's main blade."
American An uprooted tree resting in a river with its branches bobbing up and down with the current, posing a hazard to navigation.
"Steamboat pilots on the Mississippi River had to stay alert for submerged sawyers that could easily puncture a wooden hull."
Any of various large longhorn beetles of the family Cerambycidae, especially of the genus Monochamus, whose wood-boring larvae feed inside felled or dying coniferous trees.
"Salvage logging was carried out quickly after the forest fire to prevent pine sawyers from damaging the marketable timber."
• Rhymes for sawyer
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English sawyer, an alteration of sawer influenced by words ending in -ier or -yer (such as bowyer and lawyer), from Old English sagu ('a saw').