sawyern.

Brit.

/ˈsɔːjə/,

/ˈsɔɪə/, U.S.

/ˈsɔjər/,

/ˈsɔɪər/

Forms: Also Middle English sawier, 1500s–1600s sawyere, 1600s sayeure.

Etymology: Altered form of sawer n., with assimilation of the ending to the French suffix -ier. Compare bowyer, clothier, lawyer.

1. A workman whose business it is to saw timber, esp. in a saw-pit.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > sawyer

sawyer1350

sawer1379

wood-sawyer1815

1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 254 [Also, that the] sawiers [shall take in the same manner as the masons and carpenters take].

1415 in York Myst. Introd. 22 Sirdellers, Naylers, Sawiers.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 143 Carpenters Sawyers Smythes laborers..& other workemen.

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 15 §3 Any..joyner hardhewer sawyer tyler pavyer [etc.].

1616 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd to the sayeures for honndred of bourdes.

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. D3 With see saw sacke a downe, like a Sawyer.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 53 William Waters,..a sawyer.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 344/2 The log being raised on trestle horses instead of one of the sawyers being sunk in the pit.

2. The name of a New Zealand beetle: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > miscellaneous others

sawyer1789

wood-beetle1795

tickler1841

milkweed beetle1842

pine-borer1862

harlequin beetle1865

hickory girdler1869

1789 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. II. 452 These insects, from the destruction as well as the noise they make, have the appellation of sawyers.

1890 Sunday Mag. July 488/2 The Sawyer is reported to saw the branches completely off the tree,..the Sawyer beetle is the very largest insect known.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 507 A huge, ugly grasshopper, Deinacrida megacephala, called by bush~men the Sawyer.

3. U.S. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1786 E. Beatty Diary 6 Sept. in Mag. Amer. Hist. (1877) I. 312/2 Arrived at Guyandot this evening and lay all night off its mouth in rapid water—obliged to make fast to a sawyer.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xxxii. 1 We escaped snags and sawyers..and arrived here safe from the Upper Missouri.

a1844 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 256 These sawyers are large trunks of trees, which are brought down by the force of the current.

1882 Society 7 Oct. 8/1 ‘Snags’ and ‘sawyers’, which mean trees swept away, the end of the ‘snag’ being fast in the mud of the river, and the ‘sawyer’ bobbing up and down.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sawyer
释义	sawyern. Brit. /ˈsɔːjə/, /ˈsɔɪə/, U.S. /ˈsɔjər/, /ˈsɔɪər/ Forms: Also Middle English sawier, 1500s–1600s sawyere, 1600s sayeure. Etymology: Altered form of sawer n., with assimilation of the ending to the French suffix -ier. Compare bowyer, clothier, lawyer. 1. A workman whose business it is to saw timber, esp. in a saw-pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > sawyer sawyer1350 sawer1379 wood-sawyer1815 1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 254 [Also, that the] sawiers [shall take in the same manner as the masons and carpenters take]. 1415 in York Myst. Introd. 22 Sirdellers, Naylers, Sawiers. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 143 Carpenters Sawyers Smythes laborers..& other workemen. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 15 §3 Any..joyner hardhewer sawyer tyler pavyer [etc.]. 1616 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd to the sayeures for honndred of bourdes. 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. D3 With see saw sacke a downe, like a Sawyer. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 53 William Waters,..a sawyer. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 344/2 The log being raised on trestle horses instead of one of the sawyers being sunk in the pit. 2. The name of a New Zealand beetle: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > miscellaneous others sawyer1789 wood-beetle1795 tickler1841 milkweed beetle1842 pine-borer1862 harlequin beetle1865 hickory girdler1869 1789 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. II. 452 These insects, from the destruction as well as the noise they make, have the appellation of sawyers. 1890 Sunday Mag. July 488/2 The Sawyer is reported to saw the branches completely off the tree,..the Sawyer beetle is the very largest insect known. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 507 A huge, ugly grasshopper, Deinacrida megacephala, called by bush~men the Sawyer. 3. U.S. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1786 E. Beatty Diary 6 Sept. in Mag. Amer. Hist. (1877) I. 312/2 Arrived at Guyandot this evening and lay all night off its mouth in rapid water—obliged to make fast to a sawyer. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xxxii. 1 We escaped snags and sawyers..and arrived here safe from the Upper Missouri. a1844 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 256 These sawyers are large trunks of trees, which are brought down by the force of the current. 1882 Society 7 Oct. 8/1 ‘Snags’ and ‘sawyers’, which mean trees swept away, the end of the ‘snag’ being fast in the mud of the river, and the ‘sawyer’ bobbing up and down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1350
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