different between sawder vs sawyer

English

Etymology

By corruption.

Noun

sawder (countable and uncountable, plural sawders)

1. Archaic form of solder.
2. soft sawder; flattery; blarney

Derived terms

• soft sawder

Verb

sawder (third-person singular simple present sawders, present participle sawdering, simple past and past participle sawdered)

1. Archaic form of solder.

Anagrams

• Dewars, Seward, Swader, dewars, saw red, waders

English

Alternative forms

• sawier (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??j?/, /?s??.?/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?s??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?s?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?)
• Homophone: soya (some accents)

Noun

sawyer (plural sawyers)

1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
2. (US) 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. (US, dialect) The bowfin.

Quotations

• 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, Plume (1988), page 50:

  Up and down the lumberyard fence old roses were dying. The sawyer who had planted them twelve years ago to give his workplace a friendly feel—something to take the sin out of slicing trees for a living—was amazed by their abundance.

Translations

Anagrams

• Erways, Swarey, Wearys, swayer, sweary