English

Noun

sawmill ‎(plural sawmills)

1. A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber.

   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.‎

   The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

Translations

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.