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sawyer

noun
/ˈsɔːjə/UK/ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/US

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. derived from Žagar
  2. derived from Seger

Definitions

  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. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The bowfin.

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

    3. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

    4. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

ripsawyer, undersawyer, woodsawyer, Sawyer County, Sawyers Gully, Skate, Suliet

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA