sawmill
Americannoun
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sawmills
plural
noun
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an industrial establishment where timber is sawn into planks, etc
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a large sawing machine
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Etymology
Origin of sawmill
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The brainchild of sawmill business partners Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer, the Grand Hotel opened in 1873.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Prices for lumber and other sawmill products were up month-on-month, led by softwood lumber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
James Jones and Sons, which is investing £70m in a new sawmill near Durham, is one of a number of companies counting on it.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The name came from Seattle’s Skid Road, where, starting in the 1850s, logs “skidded” down a steep path to a waterfront sawmill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Just beyond the cornfield was Snowberger’s, its tidy white fence holding a tiny kingdom safe within its arms—with the old sawmill boardinghouse that was my home rising up like a castle in the countryside.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, a German immigrant, brought order to Wisconsin’s pineries after the Civil War by using river booms to corral and sort the thousands of logs floated down to sawmills each spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The combined real estate investment trust has a half dozen sawmills and a big plywood facility, and intends to keep the dividend in line with Rayonier’s recent payout, suggesting a yield of 5% or so.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
More than a dozen sawmills have closed in Canada and Oregon, Washington and Northern California as logging operations have struggled with a shortage of skilled labor and higher costs for energy, freight and other inputs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Prisoners work in poultry plants, sawmills and in industrial factories.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
She married a Baptist minister, Reverend Poole, who worked around Sandersville on the farms, and in the sawmills.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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