undersawyer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]undersawyer (plural undersawyers)
- A sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.
- 1872, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, volume 1, page 125:
- As he was sawing into boards a very large oak-tree, something fell from the very heart of it almost into his mouth, for poor Ebenezer was only an undersawyer.