"sawyer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɔːjə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɔɪ.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/ [Northern, US, Western], /ˈsɔ.jɚ/ [Southern, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sawyer.wav Forms: sawyers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ), -ɔː.jə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sek-}}, {{inh|en|enm|sawyer}} Middle English sawyer, {{suffix|en|saw|yer}} saw + -yer, {{doublet|en|sawer}} Doublet of sawer Head templates: {{en-noun}} sawyer (plural sawyers)
  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Categories (lifeform): Chrysomeloid beetles Translations (one who saws timber): zager (Dutch), segilisto (Esperanto), sahuri (Finnish), sahaaja (Finnish), scieur [masculine] (French), scieuse [feminine] (French), Säger [masculine] (German), Sägerin [feminine] (German), sahhaaja (Ingrian), sábhadóir [masculine] (Irish), بچقیجی (bıçkıcı) (Ottoman Turkish), serrador [masculine] (Portuguese), пи́льщик (pílʹščik) [masculine] (Russian), aserrador [masculine] (Spanish), sågare [common-gender] (Swedish), sågverksarbetare [common-gender] (Swedish), bıçkıcı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sawyer-en-noun-hvF9OagF Disambiguation of Occupations: 43 21 4 32 Disambiguation of People: 63 6 19 12 Disambiguation of Chrysomeloid beetles: 26 28 12 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -yer, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 40 6 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -yer: 22 34 7 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 37 9 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 37 2 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 30 28 5 37 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 28 7 36 Disambiguation of 'one who saws timber': 87 3 9 1
  2. (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current. Tags: US Categories (lifeform): Chrysomeloid beetles
    Sense id: en-sawyer-en-noun-xyLknpM8 Disambiguation of Chrysomeloid beetles: 26 28 12 34 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -yer, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 40 6 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -yer: 22 34 7 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 37 9 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 37 2 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 30 28 5 37 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 28 7 36
  3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. Categories (lifeform): Chrysomeloid beetles
    Sense id: en-sawyer-en-noun-CoKiez5~ Disambiguation of Chrysomeloid beetles: 26 28 12 34
  4. (US, dialect) The bowfin. Tags: US, dialectal Categories (lifeform): Chrysomeloid beetles, Holostean fish
    Sense id: en-sawyer-en-noun-0T12IECr Disambiguation of Chrysomeloid beetles: 26 28 12 34 Disambiguation of Holostean fish: 26 27 6 41 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -yer, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 40 6 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -yer: 22 34 7 38 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 27 24 3 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 37 9 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 37 2 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 30 28 5 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 23 29 3 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 26 25 4 44 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 28 7 36 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 26 26 4 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 26 28 4 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 21 28 4 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 21 26 5 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 26 26 4 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 26 26 3 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 29 28 3 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 26 27 4 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 23 26 4 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sawier [obsolete] Related terms: fret-sawyer

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "saw",
        "3": "yer"
      },
      "expansion": "saw + -yer",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sawer"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of sawer",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sawyers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fret-sawyer"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "saw",
          "saw"
        ],
        [
          "timber",
          "timber"
        ],
        [
          "sawpit",
          "sawpit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current."
      ],
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        [
          "trunk",
          "trunk"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ],
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        "(US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The bowfin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bowfin",
          "bowfin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialect) The bowfin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɔːjə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɔɪ.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern",
        "US",
        "Western"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɔ.jɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː.jə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "soya (some accents)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "sawier"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "zager"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "segilisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "sahuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "sahaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scieur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scieuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Säger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sägerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "sahhaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sábhadóir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bıçkıcı",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "بچقیجی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "serrador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pílʹščik",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пи́льщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aserrador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sågare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sågverksarbetare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who saws timber",
      "word": "bıçkıcı"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sawyer"
  ],
  "word": "sawyer"
}

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