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noun

Sawyer n.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. (U.S.)

(Zool.) The bowfin. (Local, U.S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sawyer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tom Sawyer (1876) is a story of life in a Missouri town on the Mississippi River. Tom Sawyer, the hero, is "a combination," says the author, "of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew." Probably Mark Twain himself is the largest part of this combination. The book is the record of a wide-awake boy's impression of the life of that day. The wretched ...

— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck

... I, still more confused, "'The King is the top-sawyer,' according to our proverb. How then ...

— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... only in name, for it was built by the architect of Big Ben. Once a favourite residence of the Bishops of Winchester, the Castle passed to the Crown in the sixteenth century and then, after purchase by Sir Robert Sawyer, to the Herberts by intermarriage with the last-named knight's family. Highclere Church is a new building designed by Sir Gilbert Scott and stands just outside the park. It replaces an erection of the late seventeenth century which used to stand within a stone's throw ...

— Wanderings in Wessex - An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter • Edric Holmes

... very many of the garrison were put to the sword, and the town miserably plundered. The king's forces killed divers who prayed quarter, and put divers women to the sword,[35] and other women and children they turned naked into the streets, and many they ravished. They hanged Mr. Reynor and Mr. Sawyer in cold blood; and at Wighton they smothered Mrs. Barlowes, a minister's wife, and ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... in his chair involuntarily. There was stimulation to curiosity in this. This chap was a regular top sawyer—clothes, way of pronouncing his words, manners, everything. No mistaking him—old family solicitor sort of chap. What on earth could he have to say to Tembarom? Tembarom himself had sat down and could not be said to look at ...

— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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