sawdust

saw +‎ dust

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/

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sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)

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

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

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.