Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sawyer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sawyer
n 1: 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}]
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