A person whose job is to saw wood with a saw, cutting logs or timber into usable pieces.
From Middle English 'sawier,' combining 'saw' (the tool, from Old English 'sagu') with the occupational suffix '-er.' Sawyer was a common profession in medieval and frontier times.
Sawyer was such a common job that it became a standard surname—Tom Sawyer, the literary character, was named after a real occupation, showing how work shaped identity in America.
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