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sawmill (plural sawmills)

1. 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.

sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)

1. (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.