topsawyer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Well; she has married a topsawyer — I believe the ablest of them all, and probably the most unprincipled [...]"
- "A fine colt. If Trevisco which won the Foal Stakes does not turn out a topsawyer I shall be greatly surprised [...]"
- "What wonder, that Joe's judicious eye noted the good "points" in the sturdy little "Jack-in-the Water's" build and disposition, and that he befriended the boatman's orphan, patting his head as he warmed his chilled hands by the tap-room fire, where he dried his always damp and scanty clothing, and, as the Deaf'un himself has told us, saying, " You go straight. Jemmy, and well see if you won't be a topsawyer among 'em yet"?"
- "[...] nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse [...]"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
topsawyers (plural)