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sawdust

/ˈsɔːˌdʌst/

sawdust noun: the fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

sawdust: the fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material
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Noun

sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)

  1. (usually) The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
  2. (derogatory, informal, usually) Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.
    • I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […]2020, Joe Berkowitz, American Cheese

Verb

sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts, present participle sawdusting, simple past and past participle sawdusted)

  1. (transitive) To sprinkle with sawdust.
    • […] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 65

sawdust meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

sawdust in Hindi

dust created by sawing
बुरादा burādā, चूरा cūrā

sawdust in Tamil

மரத்தூள்

sawdust in Urdu

dust created by sawing
چُورَہ cūrā

sawdust in Kannada

ಮರದ ಪುಡಿ, ಮರದಪುಡಿ
More languagesFewer languages
sawdust in Gujarati
વહેર vaher
sawdust in Pashto
بوره bura
sawdust in Tagalog
kusot, piyaos
sawdust in Arabic
نُشَارَة nušāra
sawdust in Indonesian
serbuk gergaji
sawdust in Persian
خاکاره xâk-arre
sawdust in Thai
ขี้เลื่อย kîi-lʉ̂ai
sawdust in Vietnamese
mùn cưa
sawdust in Myanmar
လွှစာ hlwa.ca

Examples of sawdust in a sentence

  • Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
  • Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.
  • The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.

All 19 example sentences with sawdust

Forms of sawdust

Noun
pluralsawdusts
Verb
third-person singular presentsawdusts
present participlesawdusting
past participlesawdusted
pastsawdusted

Origin of sawdust

From saw + dust.

Words formed from sawdust

Phrases with sawdust

Questions about sawdust

What does sawdust mean?
Sawdust means the fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
What is sawdust in Hindi?
Sawdust in Hindi is बुरादा (burādā), चूरा (cūrā). See Sawdust meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sawdust?
Sawdust can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sawdust?
Sawdust is pronounced /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/.
What is the plural of sawdust?
The plural of sawdust is sawdusts.

Words near sawdust in the dictionary

  1. sawdering
  2. sawders
  3. Sawdey
  4. Sawdon
  5. Sawdons
  6. sawdust
  7. sawdust circuit
  8. sawdust circuits
  9. sawdust joint
  10. sawdust joints
  11. sawdust pudding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sawdust (page history and authors); sawdust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sawdust (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વહેર (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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