sawyer

Meanings

1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
2. A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
4. The bowfin.

1. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made a living from sawing wood.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. A minor city in Pratt County, Kansas.
5. An unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky.
6. An unincorporated community in Chikaming township, Berrien County, Michigan.
7. An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
8. A ghost town in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
9. A hamlet in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York.
10. A minor city in Ward County, North Dakota.
11. A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.

Etymology

From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.