Crossword clues for sawdust
sawdust
- Handyman's powder spotted above shower
- Wood shop sweepings
- Wood shavings
- Shop waste
- Woodworking detritus
- Woodshop sweepings
- Woodcutting particles
- Wood shop residue
- Waste from wood processing
- Shop by-product
- Particles covering a trail
- Particleboard makeup, at times
- Lumber mill byproduct
- Drilling detritus
- "...__ restaurants with oyster-shells": Eliot
- Carpenter's floor cover
- Carpenter's sweepings
- Carpentry byproduct
- Fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
- Shop coat?
- Floor covering, in old saloons
- Circus surface
- Doll stuffing
- Carpenter's leavings
- Small wood particles
- Noticed most of study re-evaluated remnants of box?
- Fine wood particles
- Fine particles from cut wood
- Result of getting teeth stuck into Hawthorn, perhaps
- Powdery wood particles
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sawdust \Saw"dust`\, n. Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Collective name for the fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing.
WordNet
n. fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
Wikipedia
Sawdust or wood dust is a by-product of cutting, grinding, drilling, sanding, or otherwise pulverizing wood or any other material with a saw or other tool; it is composed of fine particles of wood. It is also the byproduct of certain animals, birds and insects which live in wood, such as the woodpecker and carpenter ant. It can present a hazard in manufacturing industries, especially in terms of its flammability. Sawdust is the main component of particleboard.
Sawdust is a compilation album by American indie rock band The Killers, released on November 9, 2007 by Island Records. The album consists of two singles, B-sides, rarities, covers, and remixes recorded between 2002 and 2007.
Sawdust is the material composed of fine particles of wood.
Sawdust may also refer to:
- Sawdust (album), a 2007 album by the Killers
- Sawdust Hughes or Hugh "Sawdust" Hughes, Welsh rugby player
Usage examples of "sawdust".
Ikey asked a cellarman named Orkney, who was sweeping the spent sawdust from the floor.
Musicians were summoned, and food and wine, but all tasted like sawdust, and the flutes and citherns clawed at his nerves.
The last I saw as we returned through the doorway was Hassel surrounded by a halo of sawdust.
There was sawdust in the tiring-house where the maypole was kept before it was used.
For example: when sawdust is nitrated, it becomes nitrocellulose, and is used in smokeless powder.
Schrutt flopped backward in the sawdust, rolling into the ratel, who snapped, but who backed away himself - at the chute door, the two of them quaking at the close-range roar familiar to all the inmates of the Hietzinger Zoo.
Distantly he retasted the sand around Entudenin, the frost-hardened clay of the Hintervold, the pitch of Tyrian pines, and saffron -laced sawdust from an arena he had never seen, all seasoned with dark flame.
Nothing could soothe Ruer Stross like the sweet aroma of sawdust tickling his nose.
As he completes his efforts, Yawl appears and unbanks the forge, the coals still hot enough to smoke sawdust as he begins laying in charcoal.
His head was shielded from the hot sun by a little cloth cap that was torn in the crown, and his long hair and his broad back and shoulders were besprinkled with sawdust.
The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.
What a cheap, convenient, expressionist device, this sawdust ring, this little O!
The workshop floor was strewn with straw and sawdust, offcuts from his contraption.
Every dead tree or branch in the forest is crowded with all species of Polyporus, while carpets, damp cellars, plaster walls and sawdust are favorite abodes of many fungi.
The floors had been thoroughly swept, and though faint traces of sawdust were visible in the rafters, on the windowsills, and along the top edges of the tool racks, this place was no typical messy woodshop.