sawmill
English
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Noun
[edit]sawmill (plural sawmills)
- A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
- He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring.
- The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago.
- The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
- When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
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[edit]machine, building or company
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Verb
[edit]sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)
- (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.