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sawmill

sawmill noun: a machine, building, or company used for cutting (milling) lumber or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.

Noun

sawmill (plural sawmills)

  1. A machine, building, or company used for cutting (milling) lumber or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
    • 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.

Verb

sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)

  1. (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.

sawmill meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Thai

sawmill in Tamil

மரம் அறுக்கும் ஆலை

sawmill in Kannada

ಮರ ಕೊಯ್ಯುವ ಕಾರ್ಖಾನೆ, ಮರ ಕೊಯ್ಯುವ ಯಂತ್ರ

sawmill in Arabic

machine, building or company
مَنْشَرَة manšara

sawmill in Thai

machine, building or company
โรงเลื่อย
More languagesFewer languages
sawmill in Vietnamese
xưởng cưa, nhà máy cưa

Examples of sawmill in a sentence

  • The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
  • Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...

Forms of sawmill

Noun
pluralsawmills
Verb
third-person singular presentsawmills
present participlesawmilling
past participlesawmilled
pastsawmilled

Plural of sawmill: sawmills

Origin of sawmill

From saw + mill.

Words formed from sawmill

Phrases with sawmill

Questions about sawmill

What does sawmill mean?
Sawmill means a machine, building, or company used for cutting (milling) lumber or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
What is sawmill in Tamil?
Sawmill in Tamil is மரம் அறுக்கும் ஆலை. See Sawmill meaning in Tamil.
How do you use sawmill in a sentence?
The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
What part of speech is sawmill?
Sawmill can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of sawmill?
The plural of sawmill is sawmills.

Words near sawmill in the dictionary

  1. sawmaking
  2. sawman
  3. sawmark
  4. sawmarks
  5. sawmen
  6. sawmill
  7. sawmill gravy
  8. Sawmill Settlement
  9. sawmilled
  10. sawmiller
  11. sawmillers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sawmill (page history and authors); sawmill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sawmill (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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