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Definition of Sawyers
1. sawyer [n] - See also: sawyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawyers
Literary usage of Sawyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
""I do hereby certify that I drew pay for James sawyers as a volunteer in my Company
... James sawyers is allowed in Major Christian's pay roll 125 days as a ..."
2. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"Proceedings of the Convention of Snags and sawyers, held at the Grave-yard, in
the Mississippi River, Dec. 31,1846. Delegates were in attendance from Turkey ..."
3. Lumber, Its Manufacture and Distribution by Ralph Clement Bryant (1922)
"sawyers must constantly bear that in mind in sawing a log. ... "sawyers should
aim to get the log into as large a square as possible after getting off the ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1835 Trees deeply embedded with their roots in the river are called according to
their fixed or moveable position, snags, planters, or sawyers. ..."
5. Biennial Report by Washington (State). Bureau of Labor (1906)
"On October 10th, 1905, the packers and knot sawyers employed by the Hoquiam
Shingle and Lumber Co. of Hoquiam, declared a strike against that company. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Joseph Brown Heiskell, Tennessee Supreme Court (1878)
"sawyers v. Glenn. the party pleading. But if defendant fail to have such pleading
struck out by motion, and goes to trial on it, or in this case demurs to ..."
7. Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes: Report to Sir Arthur Bass, M.P. by Leone Levi (1885)
"THE wages of sawyers in Manchester are 24s., sawmill labourers, 20s.; coopers in
the dockyard earn 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per day. PAPER MANUFACTURE. ..."
8. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... late Colonel John sawyers, of Knox county, and four others. They crossed the
north fork of Holston at the present ford, and penetrated as low down that ..."
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