coffee mill

plural coffee mills · alternative coffee-mill · alternative coffeemill

1. A mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.

   Mary Goretihas run the Jalamba coffee mill near Kituntu for ten years.

   2002, Charis Gresser, Sophia Tickell, Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup, page 23

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   A good road leads to Pohoiki, once the site of a coffee mill and a prosperous village, but now almost deserted.

   1985, John R. K. Clark, Beaches of the Big Island, page 41

   During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.

   2003, Gerald Kinro, A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic, page 14

2. A device designed for grinding coffee beans.

   After drying, put ingredients, small amounts at a time, into a coffee mill and grind to a spice-like consistency.

   2000, Gabriel Cousens, Conscious Eating, page 675

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   The best way to do the grinding is in an electric coffee mill, if you happen to have one, but the old mortar-and-pestle routine works well, too.

   1998, Glenn Andrews, Growing & Using Cilantro: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin, page A-181

   She held an ornate brass coffee mill under her left arm and used her right hand to grind the freshly toasted beans.

   2012, Nada Saleh, New Flavours of the Lebanese Table

   Synonyms: coffee grinder