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sayer

English

Etymology

say +? -er

Noun

sayer (plural sayers)

  1. One who says; one who makes announcements; a crier.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Areys, Ayers, Ayres, Rayes, Reays, Sayre, arsey, ayres, eyras, resay, years

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sawyer

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

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