English
Etymology
Noun
sawmill (plural sawmills)
- A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.
- 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
Translations
machine, building or company
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Verb
sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)
- (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.