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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sawmill
noun
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▪ 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 in the sawmills.
▪ One is owned by the sister of the sawmill owner who helped Koelz cut the work.
▪ Sam loved machines, but of all the machines he had known through the years, this sawmill was his favorite.
▪ The sawmill was owned by Gloria's uncle.
▪ You can also see a working sawmill and collection of miners' lamps.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sawmill

Sawmill \Saw"mill`\, n. A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sawmill

1550s; see saw (n.1) + mill (n.1).

Wiktionary
sawmill

n. A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.

WordNet
sawmill
  1. n. a large sawing machine

  2. a mill for dressing logs and lumber [syn: lumbermill]

Gazetteer
Sawmill, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
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 (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 35.896635 N, 109.158709 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Sawmill

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 mechanical mill is the Hierapolis sawmill, a Roman water-powered stone mill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor dating back to the 3rd century AD. Other water-powered mills followed and by the 11th century they were widespread in Spain and North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, and in the next few centuries, spread across Europe. The circular motion of the wheel was converted to a reciprocating motion at the saw blade. Generally, only the saw was powered, and the logs had to be loaded and moved by hand. An early improvement was the development of a movable carriage, also water powered, to move the log steadily through the saw blade.

By the time of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, the circular saw blade had been invented, and with the development of steam power in the 19th century, a much greater degree of mechanisation was possible. Scrap lumber from the mill provided a source of fuel for firing the boiler. The arrival of railroads meant that logs could be transported to mills rather than mills being built besides navigable waterways. By 1900, the largest sawmill in the world was operated by the Atlantic Lumber Company in Georgetown, South Carolina, using logs floated down the Pee Dee River from the Appalachian Mountains. In the 20th century the introduction of electricity and high technology furthered this process, and now most sawmills are massive and expensive facilities in which most aspects of the work is computerized. Besides the sawn timber, use is made of all the by-products including sawdust, bark, wood chips and wood pellets.

Sawmill (disambiguation)

A sawmill is a machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.

Sawmill or Saw Mill may also refer to:

  • Sawmill (software), for statistical analysis and reporting of log files
  • Sawmill, Arizona, in Apache County
  • Sawmill Mountain, in California
  • Saw Mill River Parkway, in Westchester County, New York
  • The Sawmill, a 1922 film starring Oliver Hardy
Sawmill (software)

Sawmill is a software package for the statistical analysis and reporting of log files, with dynamic contextual filtering, 'live' data zooming, user interface customization, and custom calculated reports. Sawmill also incorporates real-time reporting and real-time alerting. Available since 1997, at this time Sawmill provides support for approximately 850 server log file formats, with new formats added on request. Sawmill also includes a page tagging server and JavaScript page tag for the analysis of client side clicks (client requests) providing a total view of visitor traffic and on-site behavioural activity.

Sawmill Analytics is offered in three forms, as a software package for user deployment, as a turnkey on-premises system appliance, and as a SaaS. Sawmill analyzes any device or software package producing a log file and that includes web servers, firewalls, proxy servers, mail servers, network devices (switches & routers etc.), syslog servers, databases etc.

Sawmill is the OEM reporting engine sold by Blue Coat Systems as a bundled part of their proxy server product. A branded version of it is also sold by Cisco Systems as Sawmill for IronPort. A branded version of it is also sold by Vicomsoft Ltd as InterGate Intelligence. A branded version of it is also sold by SonicWALL as "SonicWALL Aventail Advanced Reporting".

Sawmill was a second runner-up in the 2009 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards.

Sawmill is listed in the Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview.

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.