coffee-mill
See also: coffee mill and coffeemill
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Noun edit
coffee-mill (plural coffee-mills)
- Alternative form of coffee mill
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick: Or the Whale:
- Hark! he's muttering—voice like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!”
- 2003, Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave, page 39:
- January's voice was dry as he held the coffee-mill steady for Rose to pour in the beans.
- 2011, J. B. Marsden, Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden of Paramatta:
- 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.