sawdust

[ saw-duhst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

sawdust

/ ˈsɔːˌdʌst /

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Origin of sawdust¹

First recorded in 1520–30; saw ¹ + dust

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Salmonella can also develop in poultry litter, the organic material like sawdust that’s spread on chicken house floors.

I would go into the bar covered in sawdust from a tree job, dirty from a day’s work.

The Army fashioned lead shields and built walls of 55-gallon drums filled with ice and sawdust trying to protect the operators from radiation.

This design is also suited for indoor work like cleaning up sawdust and other debris from work areas.

Neither has a single hole to show for it, despite months of sweat, sawdust, and getting shoved into and pulled out of my bag every day.

Before the FDA started cracking down, grocers might stretch your coffee with other kinds of beans, your flour with sawdust.

His world is a sensual swirl—the cold, shady woods and sun-warmed meadows, the sweaty bakery and sawdust-filled house.

Today Maddow concedes that occasionally she must come down off her trapeze and strut in the sawdust with the rest of the circus.

The cylinder and steam-pipes were surrounded with sawdust about 20 inches in thickness, as a non-conductor of heat.

Mind, I don't accept conventional morality; it is no more to me than so much sawdust.

“I wish I could get at the sawdust that I am stuffed with,” Hadria thought dreamily, as she watched the doll grow flabbier.

Sawdust-packed thermite grenades were stacked right up to the perforated pipes of the sprinkler system.

After the articles are dipped into the solution they are removed and thoroughly washed, then dried in sawdust to prevent streaks.

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