sawmill

How To Use sawmill In A Sentence

• At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill.
• In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters.
• The Ministry of Environment is concerned with wood residue such as bark, sawdust, shavings, woodchips and offcuts generated by sawmills.
• In colonial America, small streams powered rural grist mills and sawmills.
• One organisation that has been trying to extract some of the timber for reuse is the North Sutherland Forestry Trust, which runs a nearby sawmill.
• But it was just silly to have such similar situations — of course some worked in sawmills, and some were part-time farmers and mill workers, and I've forgotten what the third was (there were three main industries) — and it would have looked just too botchy, you know, too sparse each one, too sparse or repetitious. Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• This code applies to all sawmills engaged in the sawing of round logs and flitches of all timber species, into sawn timber.
• Because boxwood is so dense and the logs so irregular, the logs were likely handsawn with a thin blade and were probably not sawn in the up-and-down sawmill, which would create a lot of waste of this expensive wood.
• There was no knowing the place again, after what it had been at first: sawmill, cornmill, buildings of all sorts and kinds — the wilderness was peopled country now. The Growth of the Soil
• As the land rose, the rushing Colorado cut down through it, just as a rotary saw blade cuts a narrow kerf into a log that is being lifted up into a sawmill.