Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any crushing- or grinding-machine for expressing oil from seeds, fruits, nuts, etc. Such mills are commonly of the type of the Chilian mill (which see, under
mill ). - noun A factory where vegetable oils are made.
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Examples
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The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.
The World's Fair Anonymous
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An oil-mill is in form something like a flour-mill.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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The illustrations we give represent the latest developments in improved oil-mill machinery introduced by Rose, Downs & Thompson, named the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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Mr. Deane was obliged to tell Mrs. Tulliver something to that effect, when he rode over to the mill to inspect the books in company with Mrs. Glegg; for she had observed that if Guest & Co. would only think about it, Mr. Tullivers father and grandfather had been carrying on Dorlcote Mill long before the oil-mill of that firm had been so much as thought of.
VII. How a Hen Takes to Stratagem. Book IIIThe Downfall 1917
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Three years ago we took Gell into the concern; we gave him a share in the oil-mill.
V. Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster. Book VIThe Great Temptation 1917
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The monotonous blows of woodcutter's axe or carpenter's mallet, the splashing of oars, the merry voices of the naked little children at play, the plaintive tune of the ryot's song, the more dominant creaking of the turning oil-mill, all these sounds of activity do not seem out of harmony with murmuring leaves and singing birds, and all combine like moving strains of some grand dream-orchestra, rendering a composition of immense though restrained pathos.
Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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The city contains a cotton factory, rice-mill, furniture factory, agricultural works, knitting factory, cotton-seed oil-mill, lumber mills, cigar factory, and other minor industrial works.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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-- A name formed from the noise _rut, rut_ made by the oil-mill in turning.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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They then both go to the owner's oil-press, and the hirer says, 'I have hired you to-night,' and the owner says, 'Yes, I have let you for to-night'; and then the hirer goes away, and Masan Baba follows him and will turn the oil-mill all night.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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The Ruthia group are said to be so called from the noise _rut, rut_ made by the oil-mill in turning.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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