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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of grinding-apparatus or -mill for ores or similar material, in which a heavy disk or wheel runs in a circular path upon its edge in a pan or mortar. By its weight and the sliding motion of its edge as it revolves, it comminutes the material.
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The nib, coarse or finely ground, is mixed with the sugar in a kind of edge-runner or grinding-mixer, called a _mélangeur_.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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