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“69 Sawers and planters -- in reference to obstructions in the river; a sawer is a tree with the roots as like a rotary saw blade.”
Footnotes to the Henry Brackenridge Journal of a Voyage of 1811
“Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do.”
What Do Immigration and Religion Have to Do with the Price of Meat? Everything!
“The sawer would just stand there and pull the lever, and the tripper would just stand there and catch the slabs as they came up the thing there, but he wouldn't handle the lumber.”
“When it comes into the saw mill the sawer has to go and take the log to the big old circle saw where it cuts the first slab off.”
“A tripper stands between the sawer who saws the log, and after the log goes up the conveyor the tripper has to catch this slab and keep the slab separated so that as the sawer is cutting it then when it gets on up the conveyor the slabs falls off on the elevator and moves on.”
“You had your log trailer, you had your tripper, you had your sawer.”
“The flyings of the cotton mill do not explode, but flame passes through them with a rapidity almost instantaneous, yet not sufficient to exert the pressure which explodes; the dust of the wood planer and sawer only as yet makes sudden puffs without detonating force.”
“-- 18TH CENTURY: THE HANDLE OF THE COMPASS SAW, characteristically Dutch in shape, is an outstanding example of a recurring functional design, one which varied according to the hand of the sawer.”
“Miss Julie C. Gauthier had on exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition, a full-length portrait, true to life, of a colored man, "Pony," a veteran wood-sawer of”
“Knowledge page 101 and 102 has made the following observation 'The splendid comet which appeared in our hemisphere in 1811 was first discovered in this country by a sawer.”
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
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