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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

  • wood: The unreduced nose combines figs, apricots, nectarines, scented candle wax and hard wood sawdust.
  • oak: Hot smoke from burning oak sawdust cooks the fish producing naturally brown succulent smoked trout.
  • waste: The project aims to develop a novel plant protection product from waste sawdust.

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