| 单词 | wood-sawyer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswood-sawyer wood-sawyer n. (a) a man employed in sawing wood; (b) the larva of a wood-boring beetle or other insect, which cuts off twigs, etc. ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > sawyer sawyer1350 sawer1379 wood-sawyer1815 1815 N. Amer. Rev. II. 143 Deaths by Violence... In New York Mr. John Wood, killed in the street by Patrick Hart, a wood-sawyer, with a stick of wood. 1844 R. W. Emerson New Eng. Reformers in Essays 2nd Ser. 281 The labor of the porter, and woodsawyer. 1891 M. E. Wilkins New Eng. Nun 43 Matilda's antecedents had come of wood-sawyers and garden-laborers. < as lemmas |
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