SAWYER

Sawyer

Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pit saw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job was the now-archaic occupation of someone who cut lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores. The term is still widely used in the logging industry, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work to refer to the operator of a chainsaw . In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.

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sawyer

Noun

  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current
  3. A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. The bowfin.


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