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English
Etymology
saw + mill
Pronunciation
Noun
sawmill (plural sawmills)
- A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring.
The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago.
The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.
Derived terms
Translations
machine, building or company
- Arabic: مَنْشَرَة f (manšara)
- Belarusian: лесапі́льня f (ljesapílʹnja), пі́льня f (pílʹnja), лесапі́лка f (ljesapílka), тарта́к m (tarták)
- Bulgarian: дъскоре́зница f (dǎskoréznica)
- Carpathian Rusyn: фірис m (firys)
- Catalan: serradora
- Cherokee: ᎠᏒᏆᎶᏍᎩᎢ (asvqualosgii)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鋸木廠/锯木厂 (zh) (jùmùchǎng)
- Czech: pila (cs) f
- Danish: savværk n
- Dutch: houtzagerij (nl) f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: saeveski (et)
- Finnish: saha (fi)
- French: scierie (fr) f
- German: Sägewerk (de) n, Sägemühle (de) f, Sägerei f
- Greek: πριστήριο (el) n (pristírio)
- Hebrew: מִנְסָרָה (he) f (minsará)
- Italian: segheria (it) f
- Japanese: 製材所 (せいざいしょ, seizaisho)
- Korean: 제재소(製材所) (jejaeso)
- Lao: ໂຮງເລື່ອຍ (hōng lư̄a nya)
- Latvian: zāģētava f
- Lithuanian: lentpjūvė f
- Luxembourgish: Seeërei f
- Macedonian: пила́на f (pilána)
- Maori: mira kani rākau
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: мод хөрөөдөх газар (mod xöröödöx gazar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sagbruk n, sag (no) m or f
- Ottoman Turkish: بچقیخانه (bıçkıhane)
- Plautdietsch: Soagmäl f
- Polish: tartak (pl) m
- Portuguese: serraria f
- Romanian: gater (ro) n
- Russian: лесопи́лка (ru) f (lesopílka), лесопи́льня (ru) f (lesopílʹnja), лесопи́льный заво́д m (lesopílʹnyj zavód)
- Scottish Gaelic: muileann-sàbhaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пила̀на f
- Roman: pilàna (sh) f
- Slovak: píla (sk) f
- Slovene: žaga (sl) f
- Spanish: aserradero (es) m
- Swedish: sågverk (sv) n
- Thai: โรงเลื่อย
- Turkish: bıçkıhane (tr), hızar (tr)
- Ukrainian: лісопи́льня f (lisopýlʹnja), тарта́к (uk) m (tarták), пи́льня f (pýlʹnja), лісопи́лка f (lisopýlka)
- Vietnamese: xưởng cưa, nhà máy cưa
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Verb
sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)
- (transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.