woodsawyer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a worker whose occupation is sawing wood or timber

   The woodsawyer stacked each billet beside the saw before beginning work.

A compound of wood + sawyer, literally a person who saws wood. Sawyer comes from saw + the occupational suffix -yer, an older variant of -er. Wood-sawyer is the common historical hyphenated spelling, while woodsawyer is the closed compound.

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