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sawmill

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s; see saw (n.1) + mill (n.1).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For one shot, he zooms in over a sawmill , low enough to smell the fresh-cut lumber. ▪ I enter the town past the sawmill , which has now become a health shop and picture gallery. ▪ Mac shows viewers how the big machinery works ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 612 Housing Units (2000): 241 Land area (2000): 5.813286 sq. miles (15.056342 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.813286 sq. miles (15.056342 sq. km) FIPS code: 64590 Located within: Arizona ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber . Prior to the invention of the sawmill, boards were rived (split) and planed, or more often sawn by two men with a whipsaw, one above and another in a saw pit below. The earliest known ...

Usage examples of sawmill.

I carry a log inside the millhouse and place it against the saw, which is held in place vertically by a strong wooden frame that Bando and I made after he visited a waterwheel sawmill on the other side of the Hudson.

The building of the vessel was hastened as much as possible, and, by means of the waterfall on the shore, Cyrus Harding managed to establish an hydraulic sawmill, which rapidly cut up the trunks of trees into planks and joists.

When the sawmill closed and Tey had wanted out of Quartz River, Rick had sided with me.

The day before, as they started into the hills, they had passed a sawmill along the upper Werra, but after that, they had passed into real wilderness.

Clara was breething so she sounded like a big sawmill saw, and when we tride to stop her she woodent stop so we all tride together but we coodent pull her in a mite she had her tail sticking rite up in the air and the more we pulled the faster she went, when we went thru the square Fatty holered to run her over string brige and up factory hill so we cood stop her, and we pulled as hard as we cood but when she came to the corner she tirned around into Water street and over went the wagon and we came out jest fluking.

What would some sawmill village do with three carloads, or one carload, of untooled steel?

And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.

Also, I planned a sawmill and cabinetry shop to be built outside the town proper, down where a small stream would make it easier to transport logs.

The majority of nearby buildings were commercial premises sawmills, lumber-yards, a few forges, and some relatively new cloth factories, their bleak ranks broken by streets of cabins to accommodate their workers.

That tells me this is a gristmill, not a sawmill, and it tells me the mill is old.

Teddy the Keystone Dog unties Tom Oakheart, who gets on a handcar to make for the sawmill.

Past a sawmill, whose shrieking headrig and growling planers they could hear from the road four hundred yards away.

I carry a log inside the millhouse and place it against the saw, which is held in place vertically by a strong wooden frame that Bando and I made after he visited a waterwheel sawmill on the other side of the Hudson.

Drusilla and Ringo and Louvinia too were down in the bottom at the sawmill and I saw that one too, on the wallpaper with the pokeberry juice and the juice not cried on this time either, and this the first time Mrs.

After that whenever there was an accident as far as the lead foundry eight blocks away on one side and the sawmill nine blocks away on the other, Simcha was sent for.