sawdust
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- noun
- /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
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aserrín
- To make the compost richer, we added some sawdust from the woodshop.
- sawdust and wood
- sawdust and manure
- sawdust and compost
Just imagine that the sawdust is like glitter.
- Just imagine that the sawdust is like glitter.
- Buy some Guinea pig sawdust and then I'm done.
- Alexi Sales said anything that calls itself a workshop that doesn't have sawdust on the floor is shite.
- One day somebody in the world looked at all the sawdust, all the stuff that fell from cutting wood, and said, fuck, I'm going to sell that.
Examples
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Wood chips from the county landfill and sawdust from a lumber company are used as carbon sources.
Academic text (1999) -
Hamer brings in sawdust from four of its five mills and purchases sawdust from three other local mills.
Academic text (1996) -
Even a little bit of sawdust can actually prevent stuff from sitting tight.
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So all the sawdust is mostly inside my camera, apparently.
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We mixed clay and sawdust, and we had several people stop by to see what we were up to get their hands dirty.
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Routers produce an extreme amount of sawdust, but I love them.
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There were stumps, and there was white sawdust on the gray earth.
Fiction book (1991) -
Coming into Pets at Home first because we need to get some sawdust for Percy.
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Until recently, Hamer sold most of the sawdust it generated to paper mills.
Academic text (1996) -
It smells kind of like a pet shop in a nice way, kind of like sawdust mixed with chocolate.
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Etymology
Sawdust comes from the simple parts saw, meaning 'to cut wood with a tool', and dust, meaning 'fine particles', so it means the tiny pieces of wood left after sawing.