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.