Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mill; a building for milling or grinding.

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Examples

  • At the last moment, as they made the final turn around the mill-house path, she turned swiftly to me and laid a stick-straight finger across her withered lips.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I would rather remain — if such must be the alternative — all my life in the mill-house, grinding for my very bread, than be brought forth to make sport for the Philistine lords and ladies.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • In among the crests of the willows, he caught a glimpse of a mill near-by on a branch stream, and of the thatched roof of the mill-house where the house-leeks were growing.

    Eve and David 2007

  • In among the crests of the willows, he caught a glimpse of a mill near-by on a branch stream, and of the thatched roof of the mill-house where the house-leeks were growing.

    Eve and David 2007

  • Each will take the week's supply of ear-corn and potatoes for her household -- a peck for each member of the family, large and small -- and will grind her own grist at the mill-house, or more probably trade away the entire supply at the cross-roads store for flour, sugar and coffee.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • But this question she could not ask him, for Sarah hardly liked to own to herself that she was a little ashamed of her uncle Howroyd; at least, not exactly ashamed, but she did not mean to take Horatia Cunningham to see him or the old-fashioned mill-house in which William Howroyd and his father had lived for three or four generations.

    Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

  • Sarah was looking out of the mill-house window when she saw the car drive up to the big gates of the little front-garden.

    Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

  • These 3½ ton blocks are taken on a bogie to the mill-house, where the mill melting pot is charged with them by means of a double-powered hydraulic crane, lifting, however, with the single power only.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

  • If she went outside the mill-house, it was only for a few steps for a few moments.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • The mill-house was a gaunt and gloomy building of stone, as gray as sleep, weatherstained with dreams.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

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