undersawyer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

under- +‎ sawyer

Noun[edit]

undersawyer (plural undersawyers)

  1. A sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.
    • 1872, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, volume 1, page 125:
      As he was sawing into boards a very large oak-tree, something fell from the very heart of it almost into his mouth, for poor Ebenezer was only an undersawyer.
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