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sawyer

/ˈsɔːjə/US/ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/

sawyer noun: one who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.

sawyer: one who saws timber, especially in a sawpit
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Noun

sawyer (plural sawyers)

  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
    • ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
  3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. (US, dialectal) The bowfin.

Proper noun capitalized: Sawyer

Sawyer (countable and uncountable, plural Sawyers)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A minor city in Pratt County, Kansas.
  4. An unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky.
  5. An unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan.
  6. An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
  7. A ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
  8. A hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York.
  9. A minor city in Ward County, North Dakota.
  10. A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.

sawyer meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

sawyer in Hindi

सॉयर

sawyer in Marathi

सॉयर

sawyer in Urdu

آرا کش

sawyer in Bengali

সয়্যার
More languagesFewer languages
sawyer in Telugu
సాయర్
sawyer in Gujarati
સૉયર

Forms of sawyer

Noun
pluralsawyers
alternative form (obsolete)sawier
Proper noun
pluralSawyers

Plural of sawyer: sawyers

Origin of sawyer

From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.

* 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.

Words formed from sawyer

Phrases with sawyer

Words that rhyme with sawyer

Questions about sawyer

What does sawyer mean?
Sawyer means one who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
What is sawyer in Hindi?
Sawyer in Hindi is सॉयर. See Sawyer meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sawyer?
Sawyer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sawyer?
Sawyer is pronounced /ˈsɔːjə/ (UK).
What is the plural of sawyer?
The plural of sawyer is sawyers.

Words near sawyer in the dictionary

  1. sawwhets
  2. sawwing
  3. sawwings
  4. sawwort
  5. sawworts
  6. sawyer
  7. Sawyer County
  8. sawyers
  9. Sawyers Gully
  10. sawzall
  11. sawzalls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sawyer (page history and authors); Sawyer (page history and authors); sawyer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sawyer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sawyer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sawyer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sawyer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sawyer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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