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A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Pratt County, Kansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Ward County, North Dakota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
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noun
One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
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noun
A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
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noun
The bowfin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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noun
any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sawyer beetle
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Broader terms: long-horned beetle, longicorn, longicorn beetle
Narrower terms: pine sawyer
noun
one who is employed to saw wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
History
* 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.
From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
