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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Today the family employs roughly 300 people between the sawmill, two other plants and three builder-supply yards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The brainchild of sawmill business partners Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer, the Grand Hotel opened in 1873.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
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
As we drove several miles down a lane into the forest, he told me he was a sawmill worker and never made quite enough to get out from under his debts.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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
PotlatchDeltic’s sawmills are among those that analysts expect to benefit from higher trade barriers, which should also boost U.S. timberland owners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
They’re often hired in industries with severe labor shortages, doing some of the country’s dirtiest and most dangerous jobs like working in poultry plants, meat-processing centers and sawmills.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
The last major sawmills closed three decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Aunt Maggie’s husband, Uncle Hoskins, owned a saloon that catered to the hundreds of Negroes who worked in the surrounding sawmills.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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