Definition of "sawyer"

sawyer

/ˈsɔːjə/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  ‘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.’
  1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844
3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
4. (US, dialect) The bowfin.