sawyer

1 7.9

A person who cuts wood with a saw as a job

: aserrador

According to a local official, "He was a superior colored man, a sawyer by trade, and was considered an honest and truthful man. She is a Scotch woman who speaks with a strong Scotch accent and appears to be honest and truthful."

So shop around and look for your local sawyers.

Examples

After training for several years, she finally became a professional sawyer in her father's workshop.
Picture a sawyer, slicker John Poindexter.

Fiction book (2002)
Mahogany was the most sought-after timber, and sawyers had cut it to near extinction by the end of World War I.

Academic text (2009)
She was raised in a small lumber town in Oregon by her father, the head sawyer at the mill, and her mother, a homemaker.

Academic text (1995)
The skilled sawyer crafted beautiful furniture from reclaimed wood.
During the busy season, the sawyer worked long hours at the lumber mill.

sawman

vssawyer

6.1

A person who uses a saw in a sawmill or when cutting trees

is a professional who cuts wood by hand or machine in many settings

pine sawyer

9.8

A large beetle whose young bore holes in pine trees

sawyer beetle

8.8

A large beetle whose young make holes in dead or dying pine trees

sawyer singular

sawyers plural

sawyer = saw (transparent) = saw + er

Clearly derived from the verb 'saw' with the agentive suffix '-er', meaning 'one who saws'.

Sawyer comes from the simple parts saw and -er, meaning 'one who saws'. So a sawyer is a person whose job is to cut wood with a saw.