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sawyers

sawyers is the plural of sawyer.

Meaning of sawyer

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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Sawyers

Sawyers

  1. (plural) plural of Sawyer

Phrases with sawyers

Questions about sawyers

What is sawyers the plural of?
Sawyers is the plural of sawyer.
What part of speech is sawyers?
Sawyers is a proper noun.

Words near sawyers in the dictionary

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

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