sawyer

1) Name applied by bushmen in New Zealand to the insect Weta (q.v.).

2) A trunk embeddedin the mud so as to move with the current – – hence the name: asnag is fixed. (An American use of the word.) See also Snag.

1873. J. B. Stephens, `Black Gin,' p. 22:

«By Fitzroy's rugged crags,

Its `sawyers' and its snags,

He roamed.»

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