Meanings
plural coffeemills
- alternativeAlternative form of coffee mill.
The building was known by the town's inhabitants as the “Coffeemill” and, indeed, it looked like a great coffeemill on the market place.
2012, James Robert Tanis, Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies, page 162 more examples
There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit, an infant in the house where it was born, a silk parasol, gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent new coffeemill nailed to an oak sapling, all told.
1956, Edwin Harrison Cady, Frederick J. Hoffman, Roy Harvey Pearce, The Growth of American LiteratureThe bottom 10 households are headed by German, English, East Coast, and Irish, from a mix of occupations: Irish widow, Irish laborer, Virginia retired farmer, New York carpenter, Irish butcher, New York coffeemill worker, a multifamily household of a German fisherman and an English railroad worker, and two unknowns.
2009, South of Market: Historical Archaeology of 3 San Francisco .Neighborhoods
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