sawmill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a factory or mill where logs are cut into boards and other lumber

   The sawmill beside the river processed pine logs from the surrounding forest.

2. 2
   noun

   a large machine used to saw logs or other hard material

   The portable sawmill turned the fallen oak into usable planks.

3. 3
   verb

   to process wood in a sawmill

   The company sawmills locally harvested timber before drying it.

A transparent compound of saw + mill, recorded for both a place where timber is sawn and the machinery used there.

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