sawmill
Noun
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Noun
sawmill (plural sawmills)
- A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.
- 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.
- French: scierie
- German: Sägewerk, Sägemühle
- Italian: segheria
- Portuguese: serraria
- Russian: лесопи́лка
- Spanish: aserradero
sawmill (sawmills, present participle sawmilling; past and past participle sawmilled)
- (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.
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