Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mill for grinding sugar-canes for the manufacture of sugar. See sugar-mill.

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  • The cane-mill in the eighteenth century consisted merely of three iron-sheathed cylinders, two of them set against the third, turned by wind, water or cattle.

    American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

  • The cane-mill was in the overseer's yard, and back of it the quarter began.

    Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

  • The press was simple in construction, consisting of a large bowl-shaped rock from the center of whose depression rose an upright post of wood; to this post was fastened a long nearly-horizontal beam, not unlike what might be seen in the old-time cider-mill or cane-mill; slipped onto this beam by means of a large hole in its center was a large stone shaped like a grind-stone; this rock, pushed well up to the post, rested in the bowl of the other rock.

    My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

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