sawyer
saw·yer / ˈsôyər/ • n. 1. a person who saws timber for a living. 2. an uprooted tree floating in a river but held fast at one end. 3. a large longhorn beetle (genus Monochamus, family Cerambycidae) whose larvae bore tunnels in the wood of injured or recently felled trees, producing an audible chewing sound.
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