sawyer UK /ˈsɔːjə/US /ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/ noun4 •One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. •A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. •(US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’ — 1842 •(dialect, US) The bowfin. formssawyers