grinding-mill

All of us are merely grains of dhurra corn in the grinding-mill of the Mazes. '

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

In other cases the marl is passed through a grinding-mill having a solid bottom and heavy iron rollers, by which means the limestone pebbles are crushed sufficiently and mixed through the whole mass.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Shales are sometimes passed through a grinding-mill before they are exposed to the action of the weather, as the disintegration of the hard lumps of shale greatly accelerates the "weathering."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Felix, the jack that Whitey rode across the prairie, and Felix's job of turning the little grinding-mill?

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

Whitey didn't know that it was time to quit for the day at the grinding-mill -- and it would not have done him any good if he had.

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

Water is then added and the compound turned into the grinding-mill where it is ground for an entire day.

The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920

No one must sit on the grinding-mill; it is regarded as a mother because it gives out the flour by which the family is fed.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

[100] It is precisely the same with the modern Hindu; he also venerates the threshold of his house, the cooking-hearth, the grinding-mill, and the boundaries of his field.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

At this time the grinding-mill should not be turned nor grain be husked, but reverence should be paid to ancestors and to the household deities.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

He was an arid, sandy man, who, if he had been put into a grinding-mill, looked as if he would have ground immediately into high-dried snuff.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870