handmill

Alternatively, my not knowing what a handmill is demonstrates Kant's point over again.

Notes on 'Seeing Is Reading'

The chief articles of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse-cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

The chief articles of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse-cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

[p. 293] of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse - cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

A monarchy, an animate body, and a "handmill" — whatever that is — are unlike; a monarchy is not an entity whose properties are completely definable.

Seeing Is Reading

Puree the soup in a blender, food processor, or handmill.

Marketing Bling

Puree the soup in a blender, food processor, or handmill.

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Then Bahram opened a bag and taking out a handmill and a sufficiency of wheat, ground the grain and kneaded three round cakes of the flour; after which he lighted a fire and baked the bannocks.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

The handmill, like any other single term, can be an example whose content is bracketed: there is nothing in this handmill. close window

Notes on 'Seeing Is Reading'

The diggings yielded only big pieces of salt fallen from the walls, and a broken handmill of basalt.

The Land of Midian