Also spelled wood-sawyer
noun
Meanings
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noun
a worker whose occupation is sawing wood or timber
The woodsawyer stacked each billet beside the saw before beginning work.
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wood-sawyer’s
Etymology
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.