[ 'sɔ:jə ]
■ noun
1》 a person who saws timber.
2》 US an uprooted tree floating in a river but held fast at one end. [with allusion to the log's movement backwards and forwards.]
3》 a large insect whose larvae bore tunnels in wood. [Genus Monochamus (a longhorn beetle) and other species.]
Origin
ME (earlier as sawer ): from saw 1 + -yer .