Sawyer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that is employed in sawing wood.
  • n. Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore large holes in living or dead wood.
  • n. See snag. See Regional Note at preacher.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  • n. A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current
  • n. A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  • n. The bowfin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The bowfin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One whose employment is the sawing of timber into planks or boards, or the sawing of wood for fuel.
  • n. A tree swept along by the current of a river with its branches above water, or, more commonly, a stranded tree, continually raised and depressed by the force of the current (whence the name).
  • n. See top-sawyer.
  • n. In entomology, any wood-boring larva, especially of a longicorn beetle, as Oncideres cingulatus, which cuts off twigs and small branches; a girdler. The orange sawyer is the larva of Elaphidion inerme. See cuts under hickory-girdler and Elaphidion.
  • n. The bowfin, a fish. See Amia, and cut under Amiidæ.
  • n. In New Zealand, a large wingless locustid, Deinacrida heteracantha or D. megacephala. Called by the natives weta-punga or weta.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. one who is employed to saw wood
  • n. any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
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    jack    laborer    labourer    manual laborer   
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    sawer   
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    boyer    coyer    destroyer    employer    foyer    lawyer    multiemployer    oyer   
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