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Any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
Answer for the clue "Any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers ", 6 letters:
sawyer
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c. "one whose occupation is sawing timber into planks, boards, etc." (as a surname from c.1200), alteration of sawer , agent noun from saw (v.), influenced by French-derived words in -ier (such as lawyer , bowyer , clothier ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sawyer \Saw"yer\, 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. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and ...
Usage examples of sawyer.
Directly the trees were chosen, they were felled, stripped of their branches, and sawn into planks as well as sawyers would have been able to do it.
Sawyer made her ride Pecos on her stomach, draped over the saddle sideways, her hands tied behind her back, her feet bound at the ankles.
Then, because Hawkin wanted it on record, she readvised Sawyer of his rights.
Missis Sawyer blabing to Beanys mother and she said she wood go in and see if Elly was in and when she come in Beany said mother jest see how many segars me and Plupy has made and he held up a lot that we made last week and she said you boys must have wirked a long time and Beany he said it takes a good deal of time to make so many and she went back looking prety pleased becaus she thougt Beany dident ring the old doorbell and she told old Missis Sawyer that we had been making sweet firn segars all the evening in the kitchin.
His father, Philip Sawyer, at the wheel of the old DeSoto he and Morgan Sloat had driven to California in the unimaginable days when they had been so poor they had often slept in the car.
Sawyer and Sloat was more manageable before you got into real-estate investments and production deals.
Sawyer had underestimated Morgan Sloat from the time of their first meeting, when they were freshmen at Yale.
Sawyer, Sloat had learned since their freshman year, was not rich after all.
And then late one afternoon, high on marijuana and whiskey, Phil Sawyer had gigglingly told Sloat about the Territories.
Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer did those blatantly one-sided programs about gay adoption and gay parenting?
Port Royal Volunteers, commanded by the butcher with the candlemaker as second in command, and with three sawyers, two coopers, one potman and a rheumatic pickpocket as the fighting force.
Captain Semmes said when Sawyer had reported back to him on the bridge.
Jack Sawyer unshouldered his pack at the end of a long playing field covered with crisp brown dead grass.
I went from there to a wood merchant and ordered half a cord of wood, telling the cartman and the sawyer to take the bill, which I made the dealer receipt to the name of citizen Mongenod, and give it to the little woman.
Gozo, Tom Sawyer sat on the roof of the farmhouse, gazing across the Comino channel.