sawdust Definition
saw·dust (-dust′)
noun
minute particles of wood formed in sawing wood
sawdust Usage Examples
Converse of object
- compress: Normally made from compressed sawdust, they can have diameters of 6, 8 or 10mm.
- eat: Are you on a yeast free diet and tired of eating sawdust or cardboard tasting bread?
- use: The top one uses traditional sawdust with watered down PVA.
- contain: Once the pots are glowing hot, they are removed from the kiln using long tongs and placed into bins containing sawdust.
- have: Small wonder its promoters can't see the wood for the trees: they all have sawdust in their eyes.. .
- burn: There is a small local timber yard in Kelbrook that used to run their gas engine on the smoke from slowly burning sawdust.
Modifies a noun
- firing: After an introduction to sawdust smoke firing she decided this was the process she wished to concentrate on.
- floor: So across the sawdust floor sauntered Frank, with those coal black eyes of his glued to Ellie like it was her lucky day.
- man: Just what are we supposing we would see if we opened sawdust man 's skull?
- pub: A real old spit and sawdust pub that has survived a refit or two relatively unscathed ( and undecorated ).
Adjective modifier
- dry: In order to keep costs for drying and grinding low, dry sawdust and wood shavings are used predominantly.
- damp: The cheap ones have all of the mouthwatering consistency of damp sawdust.
- moist: Nestler ( 1912 ) - moist sawdust; alcohol and benzol extracts of sawdust.
- fresh: The air is filled with putrid sick, fresh sawdust and I detect another orifice.
- colored: The streets are carpeted with intricate patterns of flowers and colored sawdust.
- much: The Olympic Marathon course doesn't need as much sawdust and flour to mark the route.
Preposition: on
floor: The horsebox has fresh straw or sawdust on the floor - this makes the vehicle look more inviting to the horse.
Noun used with modifier
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