Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sawmill
IPA transcription: [s'ɔm,ɪl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: lumbermill, sawmill
    Meaning: a mill for dressing logs and lumber
  • Synonyms: sawmill
    Meaning: a large sawing machine
Usage examples
  • P. Dusenheimer," a sawmill further down the stream, a blacksmith-shop, and a store, and three or four unpainted dwellings of the slab variety.
  • There were twenty-six thousand sawmills in 1880, twenty-two thousand in 1890, and thirty-three thousand in 1900, a change from about one thousand nine hundred and twenty to two thousand two hundred and seventy persons per sawmill.