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saw·yer  audio  (sôyr) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. One that is employed in sawing wood.
  2. Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore large holes in living or dead wood.
  3. See snag. See Regional Note at preacher.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English sauere, sawier, from sawen, to saw, from sawe, saw ; see saw1


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