sawmill

[ US /ˈsɔˌmɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɔːmɪl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a large sawing machine
  2. a mill for dressing logs and lumber
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use sawmill In A Sentence

  • At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill.
  • The nineteenth century saw the introduction of steam-driven sawmills and, after 1900, electric-driven mills followed.
  • QM manufactures spherical roller bearing steel housed units and elastomeric and steel couplings used in demanding processes such as sawmill and logging operations. Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal
  • In 1914 the first Wirrabara sawmill was replaced and the new machinery was now used to produce flooring, weatherboards, mouldings and fruit cases.
  • One by one the county's 20 sawmills began closing as federal land managers responded to a shift in public values and slashed the volume of timber they made available to loggers.
  • The courts did little to stop textile mills, machine shops, sawmills, chemical works, and similar businesses from polluting.
  • These same students in most cases help do the practical work of putting up the building -- some at the sawmill, the brick-yard, or in the carpentry, brickmaking, plastering, painting, and tinsmithing departments. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • According to a joint survey conducted in 1998 by the British and Indonesian governments, legally lumbered wood only accounts for about half of that transported to sawmills in Indonesia.
  • What I minded was the thought of an hour's vain wading in that roaring stream, whipping it with fly after fly, while R., the foreordained fisherman, was sitting comfortably in a sawmill, and derricking that pair of three-quarter-pounders in through the window! Fishing with a Worm
  • Logging companies need sawmills to turn trunks into planks.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy