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sawyer
n. 1) Name applied by bushmen in New Zealand to the insect Weta (q.v.). 2) A trunk embeddedin the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
This may truly be called an American word; for no country without a Mississippi and Missouri could produce a sawyer.
Sawyers are formed by trees, which, growing on the banks of the river, become undermined by the current, and fall into the stream. They are then swept away by the current, with the branches partly above water, rising and falling with the waves; whence the name of sawyer. They are extremely dangerous to steamboats, which sometimes run foul of them, and are either disabled or sunk to the bottom.
n. 1) Name applied by bushmen in New Zealand to the insect Weta (q.v.). 2) A trunk embeddedin the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris