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Sawyer

Sawyer \Saw"yer\, n. [Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.]

  1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

  2. 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. [U.S.]

  3. (Zo["o]l.) The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sawyer

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).

Wiktionary
sawyer

n. 1 One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. 2 (context US English) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current 3 A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. 4 (context US dialect English) The bowfin.

WordNet
sawyer
  1. n. one who is employed to saw wood

  2. any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers [syn: sawyer beetle]

Gazetteer
Sawyer, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 377
Housing Units (2000): 162
Land area (2000): 0.481825 sq. miles (1.247920 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.481825 sq. miles (1.247920 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70980
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.088993 N, 101.052884 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58781
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Sawyer, ND
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Sawyer, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 274
Housing Units (2000): 127
Land area (2000): 4.641141 sq. miles (12.020499 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020917 sq. miles (0.054174 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.662058 sq. miles (12.074673 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65650
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.012880 N, 95.372138 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74756
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Sawyer, OK
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Sawyer, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 124
Housing Units (2000): 76
Land area (2000): 0.134543 sq. miles (0.348466 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.134543 sq. miles (0.348466 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63275
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.498323 N, 98.683223 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67134
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Sawyer, KS
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Sawyer -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 16196
Housing Units (2000): 13722
Land area (2000): 1256.417899 sq. miles (3254.107281 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 93.902902 sq. miles (243.207390 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1350.320801 sq. miles (3497.314671 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.906531 N, 91.250598 W
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Sawyer, WI
Sawyer County
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Wikipedia
Sawyer
  • A sawyer (occupation) is someone who saws wood.
  • Sawyer, a fallen tree stuck on the bottom of a river, where it constitutes a danger to boating.
Sawyer (band)

Sawyer were a group originally formed in Fife, Scotland in 1990 by John Mackie (vocals), Andrew Hunter (bass), Alan Findlay (drums) & Iain Hinchliffe (guitar). With this line-up they recorded a double 7" single for Human Condition Records of Edinburgh, operated by Jamie Watson (of Chamber Studios).

Sawyer (occupation)

Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pit saw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job is the occupation of someone who cuts lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now often done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores. The term is still widely used in the logging industry to refer to the operator of a chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a crosscut saw) for harvesting, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work. In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.

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.