Sawmill

Definitions: Sawmill

Sawmill

Noun

1. A large sawing machine.

2. A mill for dressing logs and lumber.

Date "sawmill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	An industrial plant at which logs are sawn into saleable products; includes all the machines and fixtures, e. g. buildings, constructions and chassis, necessary for the proper operation of the plant. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.

The first sawmills were powered by water wheels. Generally only the saw was powered and the logs had to be loaded and moved by hand. A small mill such as this would be the centre of many rural communities in wood-exporting regions such as the Baltic countries and Canada. The output of such mills would be quite low, perhaps only 500 boards per day. They would also generally only operate during the winter, the peak logging season.

The introduction of steam power in the 19th century created many new possibilities for mills. They could be built away from water and could be far more mechanized. Efficiency was increased, but the capital cost of a new mill increased dramatically as well.

In the twentieth century the introduction of electricity and high technology furthered this process and now most sawmills are massive and extremely expensive facilities in which almost every aspect of the work is mechanized. Today a mill can make many hundreds of thousands of boards per day.

Small gasoline-powered sawmills run by local entrepreneurs served many communities in the early 20th century and specialty markets still today.

Sawmill, Arizona

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Sawmill is a town located in Apache County, Arizona. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 612.

Geography

Sawmill is located at 35°53'48" North, 109°9'31" West (35.896635, -109.158709)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.0 km² (5.8 mi²). 15.0 km² (5.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 612 people, 161 households, and 123 families residing in the town. The population density is 40.7/km² (105.3/mi²). There are 241 housing units at an average density of 16.0/km² (41.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 2.12% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 97.06% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 0.33% from two or more races. 1.47% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 161 households out of which 44.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.6% are married couples living together, 23.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.0% are non-families. 22.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.74 and the average family size is 4.47. In the town the population is spread out with 40.4% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 25 years. For every 100 females there are 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $12,875, and the median income for a family is $17,386. Males have a median income of $14,375 versus $23,409 for females. The per capita income for the town is $4,495. 53.5% of the population and 47.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 53.1% are under the age of 18 and 39.3% are 65 or older.

Synonym: Sawmill

Synonym: lumbermill (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: sawmills (food & agriculture, industry).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)
Movie/TV Titles	The Sawmill Four (1924) A Sawmill Hazard (1913)
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Domain	Title
Books	Build Your Own Sawmill (reference) Early Loggers and the Sawmill (Early Settler Life) (reference) Early Sawmill Towns of the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands (reference) Foxfire 6: Shoemaking, Gourd Banjos, and Songbows, One Hundred Toys and Games, Wooden Locks, a Water Powered Sawmill, and Other Affairs of Just Plai (reference) Manual on sawmill operational maintenance (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Independent Sawmill & Woodlot Management (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Electro-chain measurements at Sawmill Bay.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Negro sawmill workers' homes: no light, no privies, one outdoor water pump for whole camp. Childs, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Remains of engine house of sawmill enterprise. "Bust" town of Winton, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.		A trainload of timber recently cut and ready to be shipped to the sawmill. Little effort is made to clean up after cutting timber. Note slashings and brush in foreground. Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Decay of sawmill at Ericsburg, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.		Old refuse burner and sawmill at Tower, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Sawmill in Georgia. Habersham vicinity.Credit: Library of Congress.		Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Frederick Greenberg, residence on Sawmill Hill Rd., Ridgefield, Connecticut. Breezeway.Credit: Library of Congress.		Canadian scenes. Lumberjacks at sawmill.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		There are several examples of successful Russian-Japanese JVs. Tairiku Sawmill runs a well-equipped sawmill plant in the north of Khabarovskiy Krai (near Sovgavan) and produces kiln dried pine lumber for the Japanese market, annual capacity is about 20,000 m3. All the equipment was provided by the Japanese partner. (references)
Economic History	Malawi	Industry (16% of GDP): Types--tea, tobacco, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods. (references)
	Guyana	Another Malaysian firm, UNAMCO, was granted a concession for 237,000 acres of timberland and construction of its sawmill has been completed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sawmill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sawmill" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	34	59,261

1. Sawmill, AZ (CDP, FIPS 64590)
Location: 35.89169 N, 109.15352 W
Population (1990): 507 (206 housing units)
Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: Sawmill

Expressions using "sawmill": frame sawmill ♦ gang sawmill. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sawmill

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sawmill	406
portable sawmill	165
sawmill creek	54
sawmill exchange	36
creek resort sawmill	30
band sawmill	29
sawmill equipment	24
campground sawmill	24
used sawmill	22
bandsaw sawmill	19
athletic club sawmill	18
sawmill golf course	17
chain saw sawmill	17
alaskan sawmill	16
circular sawmill	15
plan sawmill	13
sawmill restaurant	13
sawmill golf	11
sale sawmill	11
creek lodge sawmill	11
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Modern Translations: Sawmill

Language		Translations for "sawmill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sharra (Sharra), kornizë sharre (saw frame), kantier sharrash. (various references)

Arabic		‏المنشرة ماكينة (saw), ‏المنشرة مؤسسة للنشر. (various references)

Bulgarian		дъскорезница (lumber mill). (various references)

Chinese		�"�木厂 (Sawmills). (various references)

Czech		pila (edging saw, saw). (various references)

Danish		savværk. (various references)

Farsi		ماشین اره کشی , کارخانه چوب بری والوارسازی , کارخانه اره کشی . (various references)

Finnish		sahalaitos, saha (mill, saw). (various references)

French		scierie (saw). (various references)

German		Sägewerk. (various references)

Greek		πριονιστήριο ξυλείασ. (various references)

Hebrew		מסר�", מ� סר�". (various references)

Hungarian		fűrésztelep, fűrészmalom. (various references)

Indonesian		penggergajian. (various references)

Italian		segheria. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		製材所 (lumbermill), 木工所 (carpentry shop, woodworking plant), 木工� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいざいしょ (lumbermill), もっ�"うしょ (carpentry shop, woodworking plant), もっ�"うじょう, もっ�"うじょ (carpentry shop, woodworking plant). (various references)

Korean		� �재소 (Sawmills). (various references)

Pig Latin		awmillsay

Portuguese		serraria (lumber room), serração (conversion, splitting). (various references)

Russian		лесопильный завод (lumber-mill), лесопилка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strugara, pilana. (various references)

Spanish		aserradero. (various references)

Swedish		sågverk (lumber mill, sawmills). (various references)

Thai		โรงเลื่อย. (various references)

Turkish		kereste fabrikası. (various references)

Ukranian		лісопильна рама, лісопилка. (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� máy cưa máy cưa lớn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sawmill

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sawmill": sawmills. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sawmill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saemol, Samwil, Sedwill. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sawmill"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sawmill" (pronounced sô"mi'l)
3	-m i' l	treadmill, windmill.
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Anagrams: Sawmill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-s-w"
	-1 letter: maills.
	-2 letters: limas, maill, mails, malls, mills, salmi, small, swail, swami, swill, wails, walls, wills.
	-3 letters: ails, aims, alls, alms, amis, awls, ills, lams, laws, lima, mail, mall, maws, mill, mils, sail, sall, sial, sill, sima, slam, slaw, slim, swam, swim, wail, wall, will.
	-4 letters: ail, aim, ais, all, als, ami, awl, ill, ism, lam, las, law, lis, mas, maw, mil, mis, sal, saw, sim, was, wis.
	-5 letters: ai, al, am, as, aw, is, la, li, ma, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-m-s-w"
	+1 letter: sawmills.
	+3 letters: milliwatts.
	+4 letters: whimsically.
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