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"Before any trees are cut down, we'll have to dig a saw-pit and find a pit-sawyer."

From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie

Pitsaw, pit′saw, n. a large saw for cutting timber, worked by the pit-sawyer in the pit below the log and the top-sawyer on the log.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various