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de Jong Sawdust & Shavings, Lake Stevens, Washington, seen from Centennial Trail.

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saw +‎ dust

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
    • (file)

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sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)

  1. The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

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sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts, present participle sawdusting, simple past and past participle sawdusted)

  1. To sprinkle with sawdust.
    • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 65:
      [] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.