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  • noun A mill for processing lumber and logs, a sawmill.

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  • noun a mill for dressing logs and lumber

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Examples

  • The boy was a regular lumbermill with his log sawing, his snores as loud and deep as those of an old man.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • In "The Miserable Mill," they're put to work in a sinister lumbermill where they get only chewing gum for lunch.

    A Darker Harry Potter 2007

  • Hundreds morelabored outside the big house, in the kitchen and the smokehouse, the dairy and the stables, the grist mill and the lumbermill, at the cotton gin or in the fields.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • We chat about the town, and he tells me about working at a lumbermill in the area.

    75 Miles Bardiac 2007

  • Hundreds morelabored outside the big house, in the kitchen and the smokehouse, the dairy and the stables, the grist mill and the lumbermill, at the cotton gin or in the fields.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Hundreds morelabored outside the big house, in the kitchen and the smokehouse, the dairy and the stables, the grist mill and the lumbermill, at the cotton gin or in the fields.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • We chat about the town, and he tells me about working at a lumbermill in the area.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Bardiac 2007

  • Hundreds morelabored outside the big house, in the kitchen and the smokehouse, the dairy and the stables, the grist mill and the lumbermill, at the cotton gin or in the fields.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Hundreds morelabored outside the big house, in the kitchen and the smokehouse, the dairy and the stables, the grist mill and the lumbermill, at the cotton gin or in the fields.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He worked in a lumbermill and did all kinds of things.

    President Reagan: A Role of a Lifetime 1991

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