Sawdust

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sawdust \Saw"dust`\, n.
     Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by
     the cutting of a saw.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sawdust
       n : fine particles of wood made by sawing wood

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "sawdust":
     afterglow, afterimage, air pollution, attritus, balance, bran,
     butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble,
     debris, detritus, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, end, fag end,
     fallout, farina, filings, flour, fossil, grits, groats, holdover,
     husks, kittens, leavings, leftovers, lint, meal, odds and ends,
     offscourings, orts, parings, powder, pussies, rags, raspings,
     refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum,
     rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, scourings, scraps, shadow,
     shavings, smut, soot, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings,
     trace, vestige, waste