planing-mill

Lazily, drowsily we'll hold a bamboo pole and guide out shiner through the foam-crowned eddies of the whirlpool, awaiting the flash of a golden side or a lusty tug at the line; and dreamily watch a long, narrow stream of shavings and sawdust, loosed from the opposite planing-mill, float away on the current.

The Long Ago

The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

He owns the planing-mill down on Sixth Street now, you know; but he was a wild young fellow then, and knew everything that was going on.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

In all first class mills, this together with shavings (if a planing-mill is combined) is burned for fuel.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

We had noticed, before going over, a coloured man going through the engine room and boiler room and over the lumber yard looking at the machinery, lumber, saw-mill, planing-mill, etc.,

Finding a way out : an autobiography, 1921

He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson Elder's planing-mill; he was to be seen upon the streets endeavoring to be neighborly with suspicious men whom he had taunted for years.

Main Street 1920

The tall husk beyond him is Jack Elder -- Jackson Elder -- owns the planing-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers 'National Bank.

Main Street 1920

He had saved money, had quit Elder's planing-mill and started a dairy on a vacant lot near his shack.

Main Street 1920

Jackson Elder's small planing-mill, with the smell of fresh pine shavings and the burr of circular saws.

Main Street 1920

He had saved money, had quit Elder's planing-mill and started a dairy on a vacant lot near his shack.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918