sawmill

[ saw-mil ]

noun

1. a place or building in which timber is sawed saw into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.

sawmill

/ ˈsɔːˌmɪl /

noun

1. an industrial establishment where timber is sawn into planks, etc
2. a large sawing machine

Word History and Origins

Origin of sawmill¹

First recorded in 1545–55; saw ¹ + mill ¹

Example Sentences

Kandy Fuelling learned that all too well after being gravely injured in 2015 while assigned to work at a Colorado sawmill.

From Seattle Times

The Labor Department has called attention to a growing list of child labor violations across the country, including the fatal mangling of a 16-year-old working at a Mississippi poultry plant, the death of a 16-year-old after an accident at a sawmill in Wisconsin, and last year’s report of more than 100 children illegally employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, across 13 meatpacking plants.

From Seattle Times

He also remembers the wonderful French dip sandwiches near his father’s engineering firm in the Ballard Building, and a machine that took quarters and dispensed Pres-to-Logs, a sawmill byproduct.

From Seattle Times

That year, he bought his first sawmill to put to good use the trees he was taking down as an arborist.

From Seattle Times

But it told Panorama that 77% of the material for its Canadian wood pellets came from sawdust and sawmill residues, with the rest coming from forestry residues and low-grade logs.

From BBC