Sawdust Meaning
/ˈsɔːˌdʌst/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
nounFood that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.
Sentence Examples
Why is there sawdust on the floor?
Tom filled the holes with sawdust.
And underneath his sawhorse there was a little pile of sawdust.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After sawing the oak plank, a pile of fine ____ accumulated on the workshop floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The workshop floor was covered in ____ after a day of cutting and shaping timber.
Word Origin & History
From saw + dust.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […]"
— 2020, Joe Berkowitz, American Cheese:
"[…] 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."
— 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 65:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After sawing the oak plank, a pile of fine ____ accumulated on the workshop floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The workshop floor was covered in ____ after a day of cutting and shaping timber.