undersawyer

English

Etymology

under- +‎ sawyer

Noun

undersawyer (plural undersawyers)

1. A sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.
   • 1872, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, volume 1, page 125:

     As he was sawing into boards a very large oak-tree, something fell from the very heart of it almost into his mouth, for poor Ebenezer was only an undersawyer.