sawyer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɔːjə/|/ˈsɔɪ.ə/    美 /ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/|/ˈsɔ.jɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current. US
    — ‘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.’
  3. A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. The bowfin. US,dialectal

词形变化

sawyers plural sawier alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
ndersawyer ripsawyer topsawyer woodsawyer
相关词
fret-sawyer

词源

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