Sawyer Definition

sôyər
noun
A person whose work is sawing wood, as into planks and boards.
Webster's New World
A log or tree caught in a river so that its branches saw back and forth with the water.
Webster's New World
Any of a genus (Monochamus) of brown-and-gray, long-horned beetles whose larvae burrow into wood.
Webster's New World

(US, dialect) The bowfin.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • sawyer beetle
pronoun

An occupational surname for someone who made a living from sawing wood.

Wiktionary
A male given name.
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Other Word Forms of Sawyer

Noun

Singular:
sawyer
Plural:
sawyers

Origin of Sawyer

  • Middle English sauere, sawier from sawen to saw from sawe saw saw1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, equivalent to saw +"Ž -yer.

    From Wiktionary

Sawyer Sentence Examples

  • The other candidates were Sir Robert Sawyer and Mr Finch.

  • Meanwhile, Sawyer is an amused but highly interested bystander when tension escalates between Jack, Locke, Kate and Ana Lucia.

  • Other male workers in the area included a sawyer, tinman, mineral water maker, cooper, and agent for incandescent gas mantles.

  • But the books in which his humour is broadly displayed, the travels and the sketches, are not really so significant of his power as the three novels of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, wherein we have preserved a vanished civilization, peopled with typical figures, and presented with inexorable veracity.

  • In search of the little critter, Sawyer stumbles across Hurley doing what he does best.

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Words Starting With

SSASAW

Words Ending With

RERYER

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