sawdust

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.

   2020, Joe Berkowitz, American Cheese I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […].

2. 2
   verb

   To sprinkle with sawdust.

   […] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.

3. 3
   noun

   fine particles of wood made by sawing wood

4. 4
   noun

   The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

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From saw + dust.

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