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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Origin of sawmill
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A paper company gave the Howards a wood chipper for their sawmill in the 1960s, and they began supplying pulp mills on the coast.
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
The park was the site of an old sawmill, now abandoned, but the outer walls of the mill building still stood, square, like a fort, in the middle of the field.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Prices for lumber have risen sharply from some of the lowest inflation-adjusted prices on record late last year, which made operating uneconomical for many sawmills, particularly in Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
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
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, and the region never really bounced back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
‘That’s right. Four big cotton mills—those are the main ones. A hosiery factory. Some gins and sawmills.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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