Sawmill
['sɔːmɪl] or ['sɔmɪl]
Definition
(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
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Examples
- Across the road at the sawmill smoke was coming out of the chimney and Anselmo could smell it blown toward him through the snow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This was how they were talking in the sawmill while Anselmo waited in the snow watching the road and the light in the sawmill window. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They rushed the sawmill then. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- An example of a modern steam feed for sawmill carriages is seen in Fig. 242. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In Figure 120 the water of a small but rapid mountain stream is made to rotate a large wheel, which in turn communicates its motion through belts to a distant sawmill or grinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- One described it as an ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What about the sawmill post? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A light showed in the window of the sawmill and Anselmo shivered and thought, damn that _Ingl閟! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There has been no abnormal movement on the road and I know the dispositions and the habits of this post at the sawmill across the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Inside the sawmill one of the soldiers was sitting on his bunk and greasing his boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We lost two at the sawmill, Pilar said, trying to make him understand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This great change has been brought about by the sawmill, the planing machine, mortising and boring machines, and the turning lathe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There are more slabs at the sawmill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Will cut the telephone below, attack the post at the sawmill, take it and fall back on the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The town in its pristine prime was a great lumber centre, and hummed with the industry of numerous sawmills. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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