sawyer
/ˈsɔːjə(r)/noun
1
- a person who saws timber for a living锯工, 操锯手。
2
- US an uprooted tree floating in a river but held fast at one end〈美〉（树根拔起但一端在水面上随波摆动的）漂流树。
- ORIGIN: with allusion to the trapped log's movement backwards and forwards.
3
- a large longhorn beetle whose larvae bore tunnels in the wood of injured or recently felled trees, producing an audible chewing sound松墨天牛。
3.1
- Genus Monochamus, family Cerambycidae.小墨天牛属, 天牛科。
3.2
- NZ a large wingless bush cricket whose larvae bore in wood〈新西兰〉（幼虫生于树木中的）无翅蟋蟀。
词源
Middle English （earlier as sawer）： from the noun SAW1 + -YER.