Sawyer

This name means “someone who saws wood, woodcutter.” This name derives from the Old English “sagu,” from the Proto-Germanic “*sago,” meaning “a cutting tool,” influenced by the French-ending word “-ier.” Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, mainly using a pit saw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job was the now-archaic occupation of someone who cut lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now done by end-users or at lumber and home improvement stores.