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Sawyer

//ˈsɔːjə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A unisex given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Pratt County, Kansas. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Ward County, North Dakota. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. 2
    any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers wordnet
  3. 3
    A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current. US

    "‘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.’"

  4. 4
    one who is employed to saw wood wordnet
  5. 5
    A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
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  1. 6
    The bowfin. US, dialectal

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

* 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.

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