sawyer

 
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːjə/

noun

  • 1a person who saws timber for a living.
  • 2US an uprooted tree floating in a river but held fast at one end.
    [with allusion to the trapped log's movement backwards and forwards]
  • 3a large longhorn beetle whose larvae bore tunnels in the wood of injured or recently felled trees, producing an audible chewing sound.
    • Genus Monochamus, family Cerambycidae
  • NZ a large wingless bush cricket whose larvae bore in wood.

Origin:

Middle English (earlier as sawer): from the noun saw1 + -yer