sawyer

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that is employed in sawing wood.
• noun Any of several long-horned beetles of the genus Monochamus having larvae that bore holes in weakened or dead conifers or in lumber.
• noun A tree or a part of a tree that bobs in a river or other body of water, causing a danger to navigation.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In New Zealand, a large wingless locustid, Deinacrida heteracantha or D. megacephala. Called by the natives weta-punga or weta.
• noun One whose employment is the sawing of timber into planks or boards, or the sawing of wood for fuel.
• noun A tree swept along by the current of a river with its branches above water, or, more commonly, a stranded tree, continually raised and depressed by the force of the current (whence the name).
• noun See top-sawyer.
• noun In entomology, any wood-boring larva, especially of a longicorn beetle, as Oncideres cingulatus, which cuts off twigs and small branches; a girdler. The orange sawyer is the larva of Elaphidion inerme. See cuts under hickory-girdler and Elaphidion.
• noun The bowfin, a fish. See Amia, and cut under Amiidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
• noun U.S. 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.
• noun (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. The bowfin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
• noun US A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current
• noun A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
• noun US, dialect The bowfin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun one who is employed to saw wood
• noun any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers