pit-sawyern.

Brit.

/ˈpɪtˌsɔːjə/,

/ˈpɪtˌsɔɪə/, U.S.

/ˈpɪtˌsɔjər/,

/ˈpɪtˌsɔɪər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pit n.¹, sawyer n.

Etymology: < pit n.¹ + sawyer n. Compare later pit-saw v. and also top sawyer n. 1.

A person who stands in a saw pit and works the lower handle of a pit-saw. Cf. top sawyer n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber cutting > one who

pit-sawyer1792

bucker1900

1792 P. C. L'Enfant Let. 17 Jan. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 461 10 pit sawyers.

1864 J. Weiss Life & Corr. Theodore Parker 377 All the timber is sawed by hand. Mr. Topsawyer stands on the log, Mr. Pitsawyer stands beneath; all the stone they [sc. Italians] veneer their houses with, is sawed by hand!

1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 9 July 44/1 The wood-sawyer, whose ‘independence’ became proverbial, was the pit-sawyer who spent the greater part of his time in the forests, and was thus removed from the restraints and conventionalities of life.

1946 Nature 17 Aug. 245/1 An exacting specification impossible for pit-sawyers to fulfil and other difficulties were experienced.

1996 Jrnl. Trop. Ecol. 12 586 The activities of pit-sawyers were curtailed after Mpanga was assigned the status of a Research Forest in 1951.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pit-sawyer
释义	pit-sawyern. Brit. /ˈpɪtˌsɔːjə/, /ˈpɪtˌsɔɪə/, U.S. /ˈpɪtˌsɔjər/, /ˈpɪtˌsɔɪər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pit n.¹, sawyer n. Etymology: < pit n.¹ + sawyer n. Compare later pit-saw v. and also top sawyer n. 1. A person who stands in a saw pit and works the lower handle of a pit-saw. Cf. top sawyer n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber cutting > one who pit-sawyer1792 bucker1900 1792 P. C. L'Enfant Let. 17 Jan. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 461 10 pit sawyers. 1864 J. Weiss Life & Corr. Theodore Parker 377 All the timber is sawed by hand. Mr. Topsawyer stands on the log, Mr. Pitsawyer stands beneath; all the stone they [sc. Italians] veneer their houses with, is sawed by hand! 1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 9 July 44/1 The wood-sawyer, whose ‘independence’ became proverbial, was the pit-sawyer who spent the greater part of his time in the forests, and was thus removed from the restraints and conventionalities of life. 1946 Nature 17 Aug. 245/1 An exacting specification impossible for pit-sawyers to fulfil and other difficulties were experienced. 1996 Jrnl. Trop. Ecol. 12 586 The activities of pit-sawyers were curtailed after Mpanga was assigned the status of a Research Forest in 1951. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1792
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