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sawmill meaning

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  • A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
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    Definition of sawmill in English Dictionary

  • NounPLsawmills
    1. A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.
      1. He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring. ‎
      2. The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago. ‎
      3. The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners. ‎
  • VerbSGsawmillsPRsawmillingPT, PPsawmilled
    1. (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Once a sawmilling town that was a gateway to forests of mountain ash and waterfalls, it has also come to embrace tourist lurks, such as arts and crafts.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
        • Verbs
          • Transitive verbs
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        Meaning of sawmill for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "sawmill" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
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