saw log
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saw log
An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
Example Sentences
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Lumberjacks like Andrews have nowhere to go with anything that’s not a grade-A saw log; sawmills have nowhere to send the scraps that remain when a cylindrical log is cut into rectangular boards.
From Slate • May 7, 2021
But a man involved closely in the practical management of a saw log may conceivably possess scant leisure to correlate the scattered efforts of such divergent activities.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
A pine tree large enough for a saw log is growing in the bottom of the Crater, since the 1,500 skeletons had been removed to national cemeteries.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by Elliott, James Carson
A party whom they met after dusk, when he saw the huge cylinder, exclaimed, "Well that is the largest saw log I ever saw."
From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder
The story of the woods," he began, "the story of the saw log.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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