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[ saw-duhst ] / ˈsɔˌdʌst /
nounsmall particles of wood produced in sawing. Origin of sawdustFirst recorded in 1520–30; saw1 + dust Words nearby sawdustsawbones, sawbuck, sawbuck table, sawder, saw doctor, sawdust, sawdust trail, sawdusty, sawed-off, sawfish, sawfly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sawdustBefore the FDA started cracking down, grocers might stretch your coffee with other kinds of beans, your flour with sawdust. The Great Sushi Scam|Megan McArdle|April 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST Today Maddow concedes that occasionally she must come down off her trapeze and strut in the sawdust with the rest of the circus. Rachel's Accidental War|Lloyd Grove|August 24, 2010|DAILY BEAST One kind of carpenter-ant covers its walls with a mixture of sawdust, earth, and spiders' webs. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust|Hallam Hawksworth I could not get near Tod and Harry Parker; but they whistled at me across the sawdust and the fancy steeds performing on it. Johnny Ludlow, Second Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
His leg, with several other limbs, lay in a basket of sawdust beneath the table. John Deane of Nottingham|W.H.G. Kingston The recorded species of Pluteus have their habitat on tree stumps, sawdust, or upon fallen timber. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous|Thomas Taylor I tried one of those some time ago and it tasted like sawdust mixed with sausage finely ground and then baked. Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol|Henry Harley Arnold
British Dictionary definitions for sawdust
nounparticles of wood formed by sawing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |