sawyer

One that is employed in sawing wood.

Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore holes in weakened or dead conifers or in lumber.

A tree or a part of a tree that bobs in a river or other body of water, causing a danger to navigation.

In New Zealand, a large wingless locustid, Deinacrida heteracantha or D. megacephala. Called by the natives weta-punga or weta.

One whose employment is the sawing of timber into planks or boards, or the sawing of wood for fuel.

A tree swept along by the current of a river with its branches above water, or, more commonly, a stranded tree, continually raised and depressed by the force of the current (whence the name).

See top-sawyer.

In entomology, any wood-boring larva, especially of a longicorn beetle, as Oncideres cingulatus, which cuts off twigs and small branches; a girdler. The orange sawyer is the larva of Elaphidion inerme. See cuts under hickory-girdler and Elaphidion.

The bowfin, a fish. See Amia, and cut under Amiidæ.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.