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sawmill
/ ˈsɔːˌmɪl /
noun
- an industrial establishment where timber is sawn into planks, etc
- a large sawing machine
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We come to a clearing, the site of a small abandoned sawmill.
Thus, one who is employed as a workman in a sawmill on such days as it was in operation for four months was not a casual employee.
They saw the log into the tie—they work from the piles of timber which they have about the sawmill, to store up the supply.
They drove down to the sawmill, delivered their requisition, and had their wagon loaded with newly-sawn plank.
A sawmill was the largest figure of the town, and the railway station was the center.
He's a child's plaything—about as much use as the little wooly dog that lives down by the sawmill.
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