sawdust

[ saw-duhst ]

/ ˈsɔˌdʌst /

small particles of wood produced in sawing.

Origin of sawdust

First recorded in 1520–30; saw¹ + dust

Before the FDA started cracking down, grocers might stretch your coffee with other kinds of beans, your flour with sawdust.

The Great Sushi Scam |Megan McArdle |April 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Today Maddow concedes that occasionally she must come down off her trapeze and strut in the sawdust with the rest of the circus.

Rachel's Accidental War |Lloyd Grove |August 24, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
One kind of carpenter-ant covers its walls with a mixture of sawdust, earth, and spiders' webs.

The Adventures of a Grain of Dust |Hallam Hawksworth
I could not get near Tod and Harry Parker; but they whistled at me across the sawdust and the fancy steeds performing on it.

Johnny Ludlow, Second Series |Mrs. Henry Wood

His leg, with several other limbs, lay in a basket of sawdust beneath the table.

John Deane of Nottingham |W.H.G. Kingston
The recorded species of Pluteus have their habitat on tree stumps, sawdust, or upon fallen timber.

Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous |Thomas Taylor
I tried one of those some time ago and it tasted like sawdust mixed with sausage finely ground and then baked.

Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol |Henry Harley Arnold

sawdust

/ (ˈsɔːˌdʌst) /

particles of wood formed by sawing