sawyer

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that is employed in sawing wood.
2. n. Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore large holes in living or dead wood.
3. n. See snag. See Regional Note at preacher.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One whose employment is the sawing of timber into planks or boards, or the sawing of wood for fuel.
2. n. A tree swept along by the current of a river with its branches above water, or, more commonly, a stranded tree, continually raised and depressed by the force of the current (whence the name). The sawyers in the Missouri and the Mississippi are a danger to navigation, and frequently sink boats which collide with them.
3. n. See top-sawyer.
4. n. In entomology, any wood-boring larva, especially of a longicorn beetle, as Oncideres cingulatus, which cuts off twigs and small branches; a girdler. The orange sawyer is the larva of Elaphidion inerme. See cuts under hickory-girdler and Elaphidion.
5. n. The bowfin, a fish. See Amia, and cut under Amiidæ.
6. n. In New Zealand, a large wingless locustid, Deinacrida heteracantha or D. megacephala. Called by the natives weta-punga or weta.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
2. n. US A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current
3. n. A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
4. n. US, dialect The bowfin.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
2. n. U.S. 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.
3. n. (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. The bowfin.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. one who is employed to saw wood
2. n. any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers