rice-mill

Daily rations were limited to three hundred grams of black bread and pepper-pods, egg-fruit (an egg-shaped orange-yellow sweet fruit), rice-mill siftings, or cabbage, an inadequate diet upon which to survive.

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The signal-officer had built a platform on the ridge-pole of the rice-mill.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

We find only six feet of water up to King's Bridge at low tide, about ten feet up to the rice-mill, and sixteen to Fort McAllister.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

A trip to a rice-mill had been spoken of, but, not having breakfasted, we preferred to return to the hotel.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

The women, on this day, collect into a heap their baskets, rice-mill, rice-pounder, and other household utensils, and, after having offered sacrifices to them, fall down in adoration before them.

Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder

On reaching the rice-mill at Cheevea's, I found a guard and a couple of twenty-pound Parrott gone, of De Gres's battery, which fired an occasional shot toward Fort McAllister, plainly seen over the salt-marsh, about three miles distant.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

British-owned steam rice-mill and paddy warehouses.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Our conversation is as foolish and as useless as would be the using of a paper lantern for the rice-mill.

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Elizabeth Cooper 1911

'Six months afterwards my friend (he was a cynical, more than middle-aged bachelor, with a reputation for eccentricity, and owned a rice-mill) wrote to me, and judging, from the warmth of my recommendation, that I would like to hear, enlarged a little upon Jim's perfections.

Lord Jim 1899

The city contains a cotton factory, rice-mill, furniture factory, agricultural works, knitting factory, cotton-seed oil-mill, lumber mills, cigar factory, and other minor industrial works.

North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896