coffee-mill

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

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Meanings

nouncoffee-mill (plural coffee-mills)

plural coffee-mills

  1. alternativeAlternative form of coffee mill.

    January's voice was dry as he held the coffee-mill steady for Rose to pour in the beans.

    2003, Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave, page 39
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    Hark! he's muttering—voice like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!”

    1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick: Or the Whale

    He made several attempts to grind his corn with the help of a coffee-mill borrowed from a trading-ship, but without success; and now, like the inventor of steam navigation, and other benefactors of their species nearer home, he was laughed at for his simplicity.

    2011, J. B. Marsden, Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden of Paramatta
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