coffeemill

See also: coffee mill and coffee-mill

English

Noun

coffeemill (plural coffeemills)

1. Alternative form of coffee mill
   • 1956, Edwin Harrison Cady, Frederick J. Hoffman, Roy Harvey Pearce, The Growth of American Literature:

     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.

   • 2009, South of Market: Historical Archaeology of 3 San Francisco .Neighborhoods:

     The 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.

   • 2012, James Robert Tanis, Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies, page 16:

     The building was known by the town's inhabitants as the “Coffeemill” and, indeed, it looked like a great coffeemill on the market place.