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单词 sawdust
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sawdustn.

Brit. /ˈsɔːdʌst/, U.S. /ˈsɔˌdəst/, /ˈsɑˌdəst/
Etymology: < saw n.1 + dust n.1
1.
a. Wood in the state of small particles, detached from a tree, plank, etc. in the process of sawing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > sawdust > from wood
scobec1440
sawings1512
sawdust1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1 Sawedust, sievre dais.
?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iv. 12 What is your brainpan stufte with all? wull or sawe duste?
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20 Saue sawe dust, & brick dust, & ashes so fine: for alley to walke in, with neighbour of thine.
a1680 S. Butler Elephant in Moon (long verse) 218 Make Chips of Elms produce the largest Trees, Or sowing Saw-dust furnish Nurseries.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 175 Ants..are driven away by strewing very fine Saw-dust.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 60 Winkler enclosed his specimens in crucibles surrounded with saw-dust.
1884 R. C. Praed Zéro xi My doll is stuffed with sawdust.
b. transferred and figurative. (Sometimes with reference to the use of sawdust for stuffing dolls or puppets.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
greennesseOE
lustinessc1325
forcea1375
vigourc1386
virrc1575
vigour1602
nerve1605
vivacity1649
vis1650
actuosity1660
amenity1661
vogue1674
energy1783
smeddum1790
dash1796
throughput1808
feck1811
go1825
steam1826
jism1842
vim1843
animalism1848
fizz1856
jasm1860
verve1863
snap1865
sawdusta1873
élan1880
stingo1885
energeticism1891
sprawl1894
zip1899
pep1908
jazz1912
zoom1926
toe1963
zap1968
stank1997
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > ashes or cinders
easlea1000
ashc1000
coalOE
fire-izelsa1325
cinderc1400
sawdusta1873
a1873 H. E. P. Spofford in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) IV. 9/2 The deviled turkey sizzled..away to saw-dust.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 16 I'll knock the saw-dust out of any two men in this hole of a place.
1908 Nation 12 Sept. 833/2 The other characters are all sawdust and wires.
2. In wider sense: Dust of any material produced in the process of sawing. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > sawdust
prism1656
sawdust1672
1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. 138 That done we cleansed the wound from the Saw-dust.
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 650/1 [Ivory] rubbed over with its own sawdust.
3. With reference to the use of sawdust for strewing the floor of a place of public entertainment (as a circus, etc.) or (U.S.) the arena used by a travelling evangelist.
ΚΠ
1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xii. 120 As good as the general run of sawdust plays.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 746/1 I was not flattered at being taken for a sawdust artist.
1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 274 The sawdust ring of a bankrupt circus.
1902 R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise xvii. 296 Once only they [the circus procession] circled the saw-dust ring.
1913 Collier's 26 July 7/3 And down the aisle, ‘hitting the sawdust trail’, they come in ones and twos and dozens, until 476 have stood before that multitude to shake the evangelist's hand and signify their intention of starting another life.
1915 T. S. Eliot in Catholic Anthol. 2 One~night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster~shells.
1946 S. H. Holbrook Lost Men Amer. Hist. 312 Many of these suddenly patriotic pleaders..like repentant sinners at a revival, hurried down the sawdust path.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling vii. 170 The terms ‘carpet joint’ and ‘sawdust joint’ meant broadly the degree of luxury or squalor to be expected in American gambling saloons.
1977 Time 11 July 41/2 Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: ‘You'd better straighten out and fly right with God.’
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xiv. 152 I spent the day going through all the casinos in town on the Strip and the sawdust joints in the center of town.

Compounds

C1.
a.
sawdust-pad n.
ΚΠ
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 308 Great comfort was derived from the use of the sawdust-pads.
b.
sawdust-like adj.
ΚΠ
1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 145 The sawdust-like cassava bread.
C2.
sawdust game n. U.S. slang a type of confidence trick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > confidence trick > types of
drop-game1785
ring-dropping1788
drop1819
pigeon dropping1850
sawdust game1872
pay-off1915
short con1932
hot seat1933
pigeon drop1937
1872 G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service 404 A new device for skilful robbery of the uninitiated has been introduced..known as the ‘Sawdust’ or ‘Circular’ Game.
1939 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 530/2 We hear all about..the ‘sawdust game’, (selling bad notes).
sawdust-powder n. a substitute for gunpowder, prepared by treating sawdust with acids.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > specific
serpentine powder1497
musket powder1644
black powder1793
percussion powder1819
wood powder1870
musketry powder1876
Schultze gunpowder1881
sawdust-powder1883
cocoa powder1884
brown powder1886
melinite1886
lyddite1888
rifleite1891
nitro powder1892
turpinite1895
nitro1900
shimose1904
1883 F. A. Abel in Encycl. Brit. XI. 278/2 Preparations allied to gun-cotton, in the production of which wood fibre is used as the starting-point, are manufactured..under the name of Schultze's powder, sawdust powder, and patent gunpowder.

Derivatives

ˈsawdusty adj. abounding in, savouring of, or resembling sawdust; of the nature of sawdust.
ΚΠ
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations iv, in All Year Round 8 Dec. 196/1 I remember Mr. Hubble as a tough high-shouldered stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance.
1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 July 495/1 A bagatelle-board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour.
1880 R. Grant Confessions Frivolous Girl 172 In his society I sometimes felt that life was stupid, but never that it was hollow and sawdusty.
1893 J. T. Hoskins Mr. P.'s Diary 356 Dry, tasteless, sawdusty white bread.
1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 55 I never liked dressing dolls, it brought one into too close contact with their sawdusty insides.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sawdustv.

Brit. /ˈsɔːdʌst/, U.S. /ˈsɔˌdəst/, /ˈsɑˌdəst/
Etymology: < sawdust n.
transitive. To cover, sprinkle, or strew with sawdust.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something > (as) with specific substance
sandc1374
snowc1400
be-ash1530
gravel1543
bemeal1598
kern1613
meal1613
powder-sugar1654
ash1655
sawdust1882
1882 P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man I. ix. 249 All is duly sawdusted.

Derivatives

ˈsawdusted adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled > sprinkled with something > specific
ashyc1405
pounced1619
dusted1643
floured1814
sawdusted1844
1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. xiii. 172 A..sawdusted tavern.
1895 J. Davidson Earl Lavender 177 In the midst of the sawdusted floor.
ˈsawdusting n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > scattering in small particles or sprinkling > sprinkling with specific substance
mealinga1810
sawdusting1856
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. ix. 65 The sweeping and sawdusting of the common room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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