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

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  1. n. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. The bowfin.
  4. n. one who is employed to saw wood
  5. n. any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
  6. 1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer. 2. 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.] 3. (Zoöl.) The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]
  7. The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]
  8. n. one who is employed to saw wood n. any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers