sawyer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person employed to saw wood, especially timber in a sawpit or sawmill

   The sawyer cut the felled trunk into planks for the carpenter.

2. 2
   noun

   A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.

   ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’

* As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar. * As a French surname, variant of Seguin.

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