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US
/ˈsɔˌmɪɫ/
]
[ UK /sˈɔːmɪl/ ]
[ UK /sˈɔːmɪl/ ]
NOUN
- a large sawing machine
- a mill for dressing logs and lumber
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.