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SAWYER
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English
English : patronymic from Sawyer.
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Saws wood.
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English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Middle English saghier, SAWYER means "to saw."
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American, British, English
Son of Sawyer
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Celtic American English
Cuts timber.
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American, Anglo, British, Chinese, Christian, English
Wood Carver; Wood Worker
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English
English : variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.Probably a partly Americanized form of Swiss German Bretscher, an occupational name for a sawyer, from Brett ‘plank’, ‘board’ + scher, a reduced form of Scherer ‘cutter’, a derivative of scheren ‘to cut’, ‘sever’.
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German
German : occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dille, dil ‘plank’, ‘(floor)board’.German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Dill, Dille, or Till.English : occupational name for a grower of dill, from an agent derivative of Old English dile (see Dill 2).
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Wood Cutter; Saws Wood
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English
English : occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, Middle English saghier, an agent derivative of sagh(en) ‘to saw’.Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname or a translation of Seger.
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English : from the Middle English personal name Saher or Seir. This is probably a Norman introduction of the Continental Germanic personal name Sigiheri, composed of the elements sigi ‘victory’ + heri ‘army’. However, it could also represent a Middle English survival of an unrecorded Old English name, SÇ£here, composed of the elements sÇ£ ‘sea’ + here ‘army’.English : occupational name, from Middle English saghier (see Sawyer) or Old French seieor.English : occupational name for a professional reciter, from an agent derivative of Middle English say(en), sey(en) ‘to say’.English : from a reduced form of Middle English assayer, an agent derivative of assay ‘trial’, ‘test’, Old French essay (from Late Latin exagium, a derivative of exagminÄre ‘to weigh’), hence an occupational name for an assayer of metals or a taster of food.English : occupational name for a maker or seller of say, a type of cloth, from Middle English say + the agent suffix -er. See also Say.Welsh : occupational name from Welsh saer ‘carpenter’ or from saer maen ‘stonecutter’, i.e. mason.French : occupational name for a reaper or mower, from an agent derivative of Old French seer ‘to cut’ (Latin secare).Dutch : occupational name for a weaver of serge, from an agent derivative of saai ‘serge’.Dutch : occupational name from zaaier ‘sower’.
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English : variant of Seager.Dutch (de Sager), and North German : occupational name from Dutch, Low German sager ‘sawyer’.French : from the Germanic personal name Sagher, composed of the elements sag- (an element related to Gothic and Old High German words meaning ‘quarrel’, ‘law-suit’) + hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from an agent derivative of German sagen ‘to say’.
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German
German : metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of dill, an aromatic culinary and medicinal herb, Old English dile, dyle.English : nickname from Middle English dell, dill, dull ‘dull’, ‘foolish’.English : from an Old English personal name Dylli or Dylla.Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McDill.
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Dutch
Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Sigiheri, a compound of sigi ‘victory’ + heri ‘army’.English : variant spelling of Seager.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish zeger ‘sawyer’ (see Sager).
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n.
A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
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The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.
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One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
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The bowfin.
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One who saws; a sawyer.