sawyer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: saw=yer

CIDE DICTIONARY

sawyer, n. [Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.].

•  One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.  [1913 Webster]
•  The bowfin.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sawyer, n.
1 a person who saws timber professionally.
2 US an uprooted tree held fast by one end in a river.
3 NZ a large wingless horned grasshopper whose grubs bore in wood.

Etymology

ME, earlier sawer, f. SAW(1)