sawyer

noun

Definition of sawyernext
as in lumberman

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Recent Examples of sawyer His years spent going from one forest logging job to another, pairing up with other sawyers to fell giant spruces, yield marvelous vignettes of wilderness frontier life. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025 The crew spread out, and sawyers began to cut the chaparral with their saws. — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers. — Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawyer
  1. lumberman
  2. logger
  3. lumberjack
  4. forester
Noun
  • In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
  • Two other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
Definition of lumberman
Noun
  • Hosted by logger Jared Douglas, who risks life and livelihood to harvest the most massive – and valuable – timber on Earth.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But having seen much violence and death in his years as a logger, he’s tormented by the sense that darkness is following him around and some kind of punishment is coming his way.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
Definition of logger
Noun
  • The book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Plaid can be preppy, when seen in suiting, or for the lumberjack in a flannel shirt.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of lumberjack
Noun
  • The resignations continued this week when top foresters who oversaw forests in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota stepped down effective March 28, according to the NFFE.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Appalachian Trail, which spans 14 states along the Eastern Seaboard, traces its origins to a 1921 proposal by forester Benton MacKaye.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
Definition of forester

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“Sawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawyer. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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