sawyer

Meanings

Plural: sawyers

Noun

• one who is employed to saw wood
• any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
• One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
• A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
• A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
• The bowfin.

Synonyms

sawyer beetle

Related Words

fret-sawyer