| 释义 |
sawyer|ˈsɔːjə(r)|
Also 4–5 sawier, 6–7 sawyere, 7 sayeure.
[Altered form of sawer, with assimilation of the ending to the Fr. suffix -ier. Cf. bowyer, clothier, lawyer.]
1. A workman whose business it is to saw timber, esp. in a saw-pit.
1350in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 254 [Also, that the] sawiers [shall take in the same manner as the masons and carpenters take]. 1415in York Myst. Introd. 22 Sirdellers, Naylers, Sawiers. 1497Naval Accts. Hen. VII (1896) 143 Carpenters Sawyers Smythes laborers..& other workemen. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 15 §3 Any..joyner hardhewer sawyer tyler pavyer [etc.]. 1616Ms. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd to the sayeures for honndred of bourdes. 1640Brome Antipodes ii. ii, With see saw sacke a downe, like a Sawyer. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 53 William Waters,..a sawyer. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 344/2 The log being raised on trestle horses instead of one of the sawyers being sunk in the pit.
2. The name of a New Zealand beetle: see quots.
1789T. Anburey Trav. II. 452 These insects, from the destruction as well as the noise they make, have the appellation of sawyers. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 507 A huge, ugly grasshopper, Deinacrida megacephala, called by bush⁓men the Sawyer. 1890Sunday Mag. July 488/2 The Sawyer is reported to saw the branches completely off the tree,..the Sawyer beetle is the very largest insect known.
3. U.S. (See quots.)
1786E. Beatty Diary 6 Sept. in Mag. Amer. Hist. (1877) I. 312/2 Arrived at Guyandot this evening and lay all night off its mouth in rapid water—obliged to make fast to a sawyer. 1797F. Baily Tour (1856) 256 These sawyers are large trunks of trees, which are brought down by the force of the current. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. xxxii. (1844) II. 1 We escaped snags and sawyers..and arrived here safe from the Upper Missouri. 1882Society 7 Oct. 8/1 ‘Snags’ and ‘sawyers’, which mean trees swept away, the end of the ‘snag’ being fast in the mud of the river, and the ‘sawyer’ bobbing up and down. |