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1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
Origin: Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.
(01 Mar 1998)
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