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
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 Walker, James Herbert
His eyes traveled downward and they saw log walls almost covered with furs and skins, but with rifles, axes, and other weapons and implements on hooks between.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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
A saw log containing six hundred board feet weighs about one ton.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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