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▪ I. sawer|ˈsɔːə(r)|
Also 6 saer, sawar.
[f. saw v.1 + -er1.]
One who saws. Now rare; as a designation of employment superseded by sawyer.
1379Poll-tax West Riding in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. VI. 324 Willelmus Sagher, Sagher vjd. 1457Nottingham Rec. II. 365 Rodger Saxton, sawer. 1536MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd to the saers vij s. vij d. 1589[? Lyly] Pappe w. Hatchet C b, Martin & his mainteiner are both sawers of timber. 1664in Holmes Pontefract Bk. Entries (1882) 372 Ordinances made for the good governance..of the..cowpers, patenners, turners, sawers. 1865Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 271, I send you a..letter of Madame Venturi's, with vignette of Venturi sawing... I advise you to read it [another letter] now, with a key: ‘The Gorilla’ means George Cooke,..the sawer Venturi.
▪ II. sawer(e
obs. forms of savour, sewer. |