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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The small particles of wood or other material that fall from an object being sawed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Dust or small fragments of wood, stone, or other material, but particularly of wood, produced by the attrition of a saw.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Collective name for the fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fine particles of wood made by sawing wood

Etymologies

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saw +‎ dust

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