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sawmill

/saw-mil/US // ˈsɔˌmɪl //UK // (ˈsɔːˌmɪl) //

锯木厂,锯材厂,锯木场,锯树厂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.

Examples

  • Trees, after all, take years to grow, and in some parts of the US, there’s limited sawmill capacity to turn timber into lumber.

  • When it reached a certain size, the tree was logged and transported to a sawmill to be made into lumber.

  • Andrew Miller, Stimson’s CEO, said his company wanted to share details about its forestry and sawmill operations with the community.

  • We come to a clearing, the site of a small abandoned sawmill.

  • Thus, one who is employed as a workman in a sawmill on such days as it was in operation for four months was not a casual employee.

  • They saw the log into the tie—they work from the piles of timber which they have about the sawmill, to store up the supply.

  • They drove down to the sawmill, delivered their requisition, and had their wagon loaded with newly-sawn plank.

  • A sawmill was the largest figure of the town, and the railway station was the center.

  • He's a child's plaything—about as much use as the little wooly dog that lives down by the sawmill.