Definition of Sawmill

1. Noun. A large sawing machine.

Generic synonyms: Power Saw, Saw, Sawing Machine

2. Noun. A mill for dressing logs and lumber.
Exact synonyms: Lumbermill
Generic synonyms: Factory, Manufactory, Manufacturing Plant, Mill

Definition of Sawmill

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

Definition of Sawmill

1. Noun. A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sawmill

1. a place where logs are sawed [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawmill

sawfish
sawfishes
sawflies
sawfly
sawhorse
sawhorses
sawing
sawing machine
sawings
sawlike
sawlog
sawlogs
sawm
sawmill (current term)
sawmills
sawn
sawn-off
sawn-off shotgun
sawn off
sawney
sawneys
sawpit
sawpits
saws
sawset
sawsets
sawshark
sawsharks

Literary usage of Sawmill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Contract, reciting that whereas plaintiff owned a sawmill outfit and desired to sell ... Conditional sale contract covering sawmill outfit held assignable, ..."

2. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1913)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUTURE sawmill. BY HERBERT J. MILES. In his paper entitled "The sawmill of the Future," printed in Volume VI, Number 4, of the FORESTRY ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"A portion of the purchase money was to be paid as soon as the "sawmill was ... There were stipulations "that the stumps from which such sawmill timber is ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"mill was the sash sawmill, whose general construction and operation ave shown by Fig. 1. In this the saw, which is simply a properly toothed straight band ..."

5. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"The same authority tells us that up to 1651 the town of Haverhill was destitute of a sawmill, all the boards and planks used in building being hewed, ..."

6. Lumber, Its Manufacture and Distribution by Ralph Clement Bryant (1922)
"CHAPTER III sawmill EQUIPMENT THE BUILDING ' sawmill machinery is usually housed in wooden structures, although, some steel-and-concrete buildings have been ..."

7. The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers by W. H. Higgins (1887)
"The farm and sawmill that I had then bought from JP Plank were not then considered part of ... This gentleman made a start to build a gristmill and sawmill, ..."

8. Elements of Forestry by Frederick Franklin Moon, Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1914)
"sawmill. — The modern sawmill is usually equipped with all the labor-saving devices possible and many are run by electricity so that each part of the ..."

9. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Contract, reciting that whereas plaintiff owned a sawmill outfit and desired to sell ... Conditional sale contract covering sawmill outfit held assignable, ..."

10. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1913)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUTURE sawmill. BY HERBERT J. MILES. In his paper entitled "The sawmill of the Future," printed in Volume VI, Number 4, of the FORESTRY ..."

11. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"A portion of the purchase money was to be paid as soon as the "sawmill was ... There were stipulations "that the stumps from which such sawmill timber is ..."

12. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"mill was the sash sawmill, whose general construction and operation ave shown by Fig. 1. In this the saw, which is simply a properly toothed straight band ..."

13. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"The same authority tells us that up to 1651 the town of Haverhill was destitute of a sawmill, all the boards and planks used in building being hewed, ..."

14. Lumber, Its Manufacture and Distribution by Ralph Clement Bryant (1922)
"CHAPTER III sawmill EQUIPMENT THE BUILDING ' sawmill machinery is usually housed in wooden structures, although, some steel-and-concrete buildings have been ..."

15. The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers by W. H. Higgins (1887)
"The farm and sawmill that I had then bought from JP Plank were not then considered part of ... This gentleman made a start to build a gristmill and sawmill, ..."

16. Elements of Forestry by Frederick Franklin Moon, Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1914)
"sawmill. — The modern sawmill is usually equipped with all the labor-saving devices possible and many are run by electricity so that each part of the ..."

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