sawman

Noun

sawman (plural sawmen)

1. A man who operates a saw, especially to cut timber.
   • […] In the very furthest part
     A clearing, lately cut, circled a sawmill,
     A little shack that buzzed until it shook,
     And breathed rankly of elm. I walked around;
     The other side was open, whence I watched
     The fat back of the sawman as he fed.1924, Mark Van Doren, “Javelins”, in Collected Poems, 1922-1938, New York: Henry Holt, pages 18–19
   • Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […]1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 4

   Synonyms:

   sawyer