coffee mill

See also: coffee-mill and coffeemill

English

Historic coffee mill, Kona Coffee Living History Farm

Hand-operated coffee mill

Electric coffee mill

Alternative forms

• coffee-mill, coffeemill

Noun

coffee mill (plural coffee mills)

1. A mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.
   • 1985, John R. K. Clark, Beaches of the Big Island, page 41:

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

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

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

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

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

2. A device designed for grinding coffee beans.

   Synonym: coffee grinder

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

     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.

   • 2000, Gabriel Cousens, Conscious Eating, page 675:

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

   • 2012, Nada Saleh, New Flavours of the Lebanese Table:

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

Translations

2. A device designed for grinding coffee beans — see coffee grinder

Further reading

• “coffee mill”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “coffee mill”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.