Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A utensil in which peppercorns are put and ground by turning a handle.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pepper-mill.
Examples
-
Pepper and salt were freely used, and the former must have been ground as it was wanted, for a pepper-mill is named as a requisite.
-
The school became instantly quiet, until the pepper-mill began to go again and they read aloud each in his book; the trebles struck up in a high key, the deeper voices got sharper and sharper to keep in the ascendant, and now and then one or another gave a great whoop.
Chapter II 1917
-
We dined pleasantly -- two good courses, that was all; a dinner without pretence, where we served ourselves with the pepper-mill.
Ten Tales Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
-
Every American voter or votress is allowed to keep his or her little intellectual wind-mill, coffee-mill, pepper-mill, loom, steam-engine, hand-organ, or whatever moral manufacturing or grinding apparatus he or she likes.
The Grindwell Governing Machine Anonymous 1858
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.