sawmill

Speech parts

1. sawmill - Noun

2. sawmill - Verb

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lumbermill dockyard moulin mill plant brickyard factory cutting lumber refinery workbench boatyard lumberyard power saw cannery
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Hypernyms

mill manufactory saw factory power saw manufacturing plant

Phrases with the word

sawmill operator sawmill worker

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

sawmaking sawman sawmark sawmill gravy sawmill operator sawmill worker