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undersawyer

noun

Etymology

From under- + sawyer.

  1. derived from Žagar
  2. derived from Seger
  3. prefixed as undersawyer — “under + sawyer”

Definitions

  1. A sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.

    • As he was sawing into boards a very large oak-tree, something fell from the very heart of it almost into his mouth, for poor Ebenezer was only an undersawyer.

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