sawdust
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noun
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Like my own trips to Blackpool as a player, it was spit and sawdust but everyone bought into it and attacked every challenge with great gusto and spirit.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
So did demand for wood chips, sawdust and other byproducts that are crucial to the bottom lines of sawyers like the Howards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The decking company built its business on composite boards made from sawdust and recycled plastic shopping bags, which it pitches as more durable than pressure-treated lumber.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Antain loved woodworking—the stability of the material, the delicate beauty of the grain, the comforting smell of sawdust and oil.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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