sawyer

plural sawyers · alternative obsolete sawier

1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
2. USA large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.

   ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’

   1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
4. USdialectalThe bowfin.

plural Sawyers

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.

   Judge Daniel Sawyer told Somerville that his sentence would act as a deterrent to others following subsequent protests in the area.

   2026 September 24, Matt Treacy, Stephen Stafford, “Man jailed for throwing bottle at migrant protest”, in BBC News, retrieved 24 Sep 2026

2. countableuncountableA unisex given name transferred from the surname.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA minor city in Pratt County, Kansas.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
   5. countableuncountableA ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
   6. countableuncountableA hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York.
   7. countableuncountableA minor city in Ward County, North Dakota.
   8. countableuncountableA town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.