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单词 top-sawyer
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top-sawyer

noun
1chiefly historical A sawyer holding the upper handle of a pit saw and standing in the upper position above the saw pit.The top-sawyer, standing on a tall sawhorse here, was required to pull the saw up and direct it carefully....
  • Every street was a sawpit, and there were no top-sawyers; every passenger was an under-sawyer, with the sawdust blinding him and choking him.
1.1 archaic A distinguished person.These are top-sawyers with more than 10 years work experience in the field of metrology....
  • There are some grinders who have superior opera instruments, and who are reg'ler top-sawyers of the purfession.
  • See-saw is the fashion of England always; and the Whigs will soon be the top-sawyers.
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