Sawyer

n. [From saw, like lawyer, from law. Cf. SAWER.]

1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel.
2. A tree which, being undermined by a current of water, and falling into the stream, lies fast by the roots, with its branches rocking above and below the surface of the water, with the fluctuations of the current of the stream, from which motion the name is derived. [U. S.]