saw|yer

saw|yer
saw|yer «S yuhr», noun.
1. a man whose work is sawing timber into planks or boards.
2. any one of various beetles whose larvae bore large holes in wood.
3. U.S. a tree with one end caught in the bed of a stream and the other swaying with the current: »

... abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road (Mark Twain).

[< saw1 + -yer, as in lawyer]

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