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His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers.
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Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
For this reason, some sawyers prefer to over-tighten the chain a bit while sharpening to keep it taut, then reset to the proper tension once the job is complete.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
The western red cedar used for the front and back pergolas as well as all the exterior window trim was cut and milled by a sawyer up in Cloverdale, Oregon.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
Interfor, one of the pandemic's hottest stocks, is the latest sawyer to announce cutbacks, citing declining wood demand in its decision to reduce fourth-quarter lumber output by 17%.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
The cotton-elastane blend stretched well enough for one sawyer to use proper form and wear chainsaw chaps while bucking wood.
—Charlie Ebbers, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
The year after the Nuttall Fire, West became a sawyer, operating a chainsaw in heavy timber, often on the hot edge of a fire—one of the most dangerous jobs on a hotshot crew.
—The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
The friendships West formed with his sawyer partners were thrillingly close.
—The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
There once was a sawyer who lived in the rainforest.
—Longreads, 5 Feb. 2021
Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
For this reason, some sawyers prefer to over-tighten the chain a bit while sharpening to keep it taut, then reset to the proper tension once the job is complete.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
The western red cedar used for the front and back pergolas as well as all the exterior window trim was cut and milled by a sawyer up in Cloverdale, Oregon.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
Interfor, one of the pandemic's hottest stocks, is the latest sawyer to announce cutbacks, citing declining wood demand in its decision to reduce fourth-quarter lumber output by 17%.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
The cotton-elastane blend stretched well enough for one sawyer to use proper form and wear chainsaw chaps while bucking wood.
—Charlie Ebbers, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
The year after the Nuttall Fire, West became a sawyer, operating a chainsaw in heavy timber, often on the hot edge of a fire—one of the most dangerous jobs on a hotshot crew.
—The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
The friendships West formed with his sawyer partners were thrillingly close.
—The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
There once was a sawyer who lived in the rainforest.
—Longreads, 5 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawyer
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In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.Elise Schmelzer, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
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Two other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
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On July 31, two loggers cutting trees in Eldorado National Forest came across a human skull and other bones.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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In the new show's trailer, veteran logger Jared Douglas and his team of loggers head out into the wilderness for their chance to take down massive, highly valuable trees that can be worth up to $70K each.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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In Fred Alley and James Kaplan's eternally popular hit musical, lumberjacks up north enjoy their bachelor camp world until a woman shows up who puts them in a tizzy.Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
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But Ortega sawed through Fallon like some sort of Monty Python–level lumberjack.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
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George said his father quashed his early dream to be a game warden or forester.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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Since the project began, scientists and local foresters from the indigenous Matlatzinca people have planted nearly 1,000 seedlings.Andrea J. Arratibel, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Sawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawyer. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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