saw log
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saw log
An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
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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
Such is the drama of the saw log, a story of grit, resourcefulness, adaptability, fortitude and ingenuity hard to match.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
I clung to a saw log until I struck the works of the Cambria Iron Company, when I caught on the roof of the building.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker
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 James Carson Elliott
A short three feet from the spot on which he stood, the first saw log of the many that might have overwhelmed him thrust forward its ugly head.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
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