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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A mill for grinding grain into flour; a flouring-mill.

Examples

  • “Posner discusses somewhere the medieval common law requirement that someone planning to build a new flour-mill had to essentially buy customers from existing mills.”

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  • “Baghdad, and he used to sew in a shop hired from a man of much wealth, who dwelt over the shop,635 and there was also a flour-mill in the basement.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “There is enough water running to drive a flour-mill in two or three places.”

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart

  • “At an iron-foundry I was surprised to find that steam-engines and flour-mill machinery could not be manufactured fast enough to meet the demand.”

    The Englishwoman in America

  • “If the flour-mill had frightened him, what must the present project have done!”

    The Way We Live Now

  • “It was altogether against the grain with him, and yet by his own consent, that the flour-mill had been opened at”

    The Way We Live Now

  • “Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the hook-nosed consort of the owner of the flour-mill.”

    Main Street

  • “The ride had comforted Pin a little; but when they had passed the chief stores and the flour-mill, and were come to a part of the road where the houses were fewer, her tears broke out afresh.”

    The Getting of Wisdom

  • “He had married, some months later, the charming daughter of another Luxembourg Princess, extremely rich, because she was the only daughter of a Prince who was the proprietor of an immense flour-mill.”

    The Guermantes Way

  • “It also includes a R30 million loan for a flour-mill in Lesotho and two new investments in South Africa and Namibia totalling R24 million - to be used towards refrigerated transportation for perishable goods and to assist DTB, a subsidiary of African”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

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