Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for operating a saw or gang of saws.
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Examples
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In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine.
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The wood is being shot out from the sawing-machine in thin strips and planed on both sides.
Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900
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In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine.
Chapter Twelve: What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton Herbert George 1898
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In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 1898
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