Noun: sawman
| Singular | sawman |
| Plural | sawmen |
Sample Sentences
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[…] In the very furthest part
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A clearing, lately cut, circled a sawmill,
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A little shack that buzzed until it shook,
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And breathed rankly of elm. I walked around;
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The other side was open, whence I watched
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The fat back of the sawman as he fed. [1924, Mark Van Doren, “Javelins”, in Collected Poems, 1922-1938, New York: Henry Holt, pages 18–19:]
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Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […] [1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 4:]
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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. [1988, Charlie Smith, chapter 7, in Shine Hawk, New York: Pocket Books, page 219:]
Nouns inflected like sawman
whipman,
slaughterman,
seaman,
sawman,
saxman,
sanman,
headswoman,
kettleman,
given man,
skyman,
Manilaman,
boogyman,
brotherman,
beadman,
transgentleman,
baggageman,
first gentleman,
bedeman,
boothman,
hackneyman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From saw + man.