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sawmill

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1. sawmill - Noun

2. sawmill - Verb

Meaning

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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After Ford returned and told Meiggs about the mighty groves of trees he had stumbled upon, Meiggs started a sawmill there in 1852. Source: Internet

Asau, with the Potlatch sawmillers and Samoa Forest Products, was one of the busiest parts of Savai'i in the 1960s and 1970s; however, the departure of Potlatch and the scaling down of the sawmill has left Asau a ghost town in recent years. Source: Internet

A sawmill established at Moodyville (now the City of North Vancouver ) in 1863, began the city's long relationship with logging. Source: Internet

At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter. Source: Internet

According to Randy Brock, manager of the sawmill, 7 people would remain on the job, but only to clean up and shut the mill down in an orderly way. Source: Internet

His wind-powered sawmill used a crankshaft to convert a windmill's circular motion into a back-and-forward motion powering the saw. Source: Internet

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