sawdust

English

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

Etymology

saw +‎ dust

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)

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

Coordinate terms

• excelsior, woodflour, wood flour, woodmeal, woodshavings, woodwool, wood wool

Derived terms

• plait sawdust
• sawdust circuit
• sawdust joint
• sawdust pudding
• sawdust trail
• sawdusty
• sea sawdust
• spit-and-sawdust

 

Translations

dust created by sawing

• Albanian: tallash (sq) m
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: نُشَارَة f (nušāra)

  Egyptian Arabic: نشارة f (nišāra)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܣܵܪܬܵܐ f (nsārtā)

• Armenian: թեփ (hy) (tʻepʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kəpək
• Basque: zerrauts
• Belarusian: пілаві́нне n (pilavínnje), апі́лкі f pl (apílki)
• Breton: brenn-heskenn (br) m
• Bulgarian: дъ́рвени стърготи́ни f pl (dǎ́rveni stǎrgotíni), стърготи́ни (bg) f pl (stǎrgotíni)
• Burmese: လွှစာ (my) (hlwa.ca)
• Catalan: serradures f pl
• Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎬ (usgogv)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 鋸屑／锯屑 (kìr-sut, kù-sut, kì-sut)

  Mandarin: 鋸末／锯末 (zh) (jùmò)，鋸屑／锯屑 (zh) (jùxiè), 木屑 (zh) (mùxiè)

• Classical Syriac: ܒܪܘܬܐ f, ܢܣܪܬܐ f
• Czech: piliny f pl
• Danish: savsmuld (da) n or c
• Dutch: zaagsel (nl) n
• Egyptian: (wst f)
• Esperanto: segaĵo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: saguspønir m pl
• Finnish: sahanpuru (fi)
• French: sciure (fr) f
• Friulian: seadure f
• Galician: serraduras f pl
• Georgian: ნახერხი (naxerxi)
• German: Sägemehl (de) n, Sägespäne (de) m pl
• Greek: ροκανίδι (el) n (rokanídi), πριονίδι (el) n (prionídi)

  Ancient: παράπρισμα n (paráprisma)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: oka lāʻau
• Hebrew: נסורת / נְסֹרֶת f (n'sóret)
• Hindi: बुरादा (hi) m (burādā), चूरा (hi) m (cūrā)
• Hungarian: fűrészpor (hu)
• Icelandic: sag n
• Ido: seg-pulvero
• Indonesian: serbuk gergaji (id)
• Ingrian: opilka
• Irish: min sáibh f
• Italian: segatura (it) f
• Japanese: 木屑 (きくず, ki-kuzu), 大鋸屑 (ja) (おがくず, oga-kuzu)
• Kazakh: жоңқа (joñqa), үгінді (ügındı)
• Khmer: អាចម៍រណារ (ʼac rɔnaa)
• Korean: 톱밥 (topbap)
• Lao: ຂີ້ເລື່ອຍ (khī lư̄ay)
• Latin: scobis f, lānūgō f (transferred sense)
• Macedonian: дрвесина f (drvesina)
• Malagasy: tain-tsofa (mg)
• Maori: kotakota
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: модны үртэс (modny ürtes)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠳᠤᠨ ᠤ
  ᠦᠷᠦᠳᠡᠰᠦ (modun-u ürüdesü)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sagmugg m or n, sagflis m or f

  Nynorsk: sagflis f

• Occitan: ressum m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: بوره (ps) (bura)
• Persian: خاک‌اره (fa) (xâk-arre)
• Plautdietsch: Soagespoon n
• Polish: trociny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: serragem (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: rumeguș (ro) n
• Romansch: resgim m
• Russian: опи́лки (ru) f pl (opílki), древе́сная мука́ f (drevésnaja muká)
• Slovak: piliny f pl
• Slovene: žaganje n, žagovina f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drobna rěz f

  Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can

• Spanish: serrín (es) m, aserrín (es) m
• Swahili: maramba
• Swedish: sågspån (sv) n, spån (sv) n
• Tagalog: kusot, piyaos
• Tajik: аррамайда (arramayda), хокарра (xokarra)
• Thai: ขี้เลื่อย (th) (kîi-lʉ̂ai)
• Turkish: talaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: ти́рса f (týrsa), пилови́ння n (pylovýnnja)
• Urdu: چُورَہ m (cūrā)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: qipiq (uz), qirindi (uz)
• Vietnamese: mùn cưa (vi)
• Walloon: soyoere (wa) f, soeyure f
• Welsh: blawd llif m, llwch llif m
• Yiddish: זעגעכץ n (zegekhts), געזעגעכץ n (gezegekhts), האָלצזעגעכץ n (holtszegekhts), טראָטשינעס pl (trotshines), פּילאָווינעס pl (pilovines), פּילינעס pl (pilines), זעגשטויב (zegshtoyb), שאָבעכץ n (shobekhts)

Verb

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.