Home › Words › U › undersawyerundersawyerundersawyer means A sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.EtymologyFrom under- + sawyer.nounA sawyer who works in a sawpit, underneath the wood being sawn.e.g.“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.” — 1872, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, volume 1, page 125:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.sawyer 85% match — One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. vs undersawyer →woodsawyer 82% match — A sawyer; one who saws timber. vs undersawyer →sawer 76% match — One who saws; a sawyer. vs undersawyer →sawpit 75% match — A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below. vs undersawyer →sawmiller 65% match — The operator of a sawmill. vs undersawyer →sawgrinder 64% match — A metalworker who produces sawblades by grinding. vs undersawyer →bucksaw 61% match — A saw in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood. vs undersawyer →whipsaw 58% match — A rip saw often operated by two people. vs undersawyer →