sawyer
/ˈsɔjər/
noun
- A person who saws wood, especially as a job; someone who cuts logs into boards at a sawmill.
- My grandfather worked as a sawyer in the lumber mill for thirty years.
- The sawyer wore ear protection because of the loud machinery.
- The sawyer operated the large saw that cut the logs into planks.
- A type of beetle, especially the longhorn beetle, whose larvae bore into wood.
- A sawyer beetle had left small holes in the wooden fence.
- We found a large sawyer crawling on the porch railing.
- The sawyer's larvae can damage untreated lumber.
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