Meaning of sawman | Babel Free

Definitions

A man who operates a saw, especially to cut timber.

Examples

“[…] In the very furthest part A clearing, lately cut, circled a sawmill, A little shack that buzzed until it shook, And breathed rankly of elm. I walked around; The other side was open, whence I watched The fat back of the sawman as he fed.”

“Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […]”

“A good sawman can take out eight cords a day, but Frank, driven by the knot of Jackson anger and wildness that drove all his people, could do more.”

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