Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar-cane.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
sugar mill .
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Examples
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There is also what is left of an old trapiche (sugar-mill) to turn sugar-cane into molasses.
Venezuela's agrarian reform: Hacienda, chapel on Simon Bolivar historic route 2009
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Immediately around the town the evident signs of wealth and of an industrious population were very pleasing; but as we went on, the constant succession of open fields skirted by rows of bamboos, with here and there the white buildings and a tall chimney of a sugar-mill, became monotonous.
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It was Sunday, and they were off work at the sugar-mill.
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Sekeletu favored the missionary, not as the man who could give him Bibles and tracts, but as the one by whose help he hoped to sell his ivory for a rifle, a sugar-mill, and brass wire.
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Sekeletu was well pleased with the various articles we brought for him, and inquired if a ship could not bring his sugar-mill and the other goods we had been obliged to leave behind at Tette.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Now he was in the sugar-mill, never before having seen such a building.
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Nautical men may suppose that this was a serious storm only to landsmen; but the “Orestes,” which was once in sight, and at another time forty miles off during the same gale, split eighteen sails; and the “Pioneer” had to be lightened of parts of a sugar-mill she was carrying; her round-house was washed away, and the cabin was frequently knee-deep in water.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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He saw the tall smokestack of the abandoned sugar-mill at Roseires poking up into the early morning sky, and he glowered at it angrily.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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He left his men at the sugar-mill and flew back to the border with an empty rear cabin to pick up the first load of reinforcements.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Can you imagine what chance the son of a sugar-mill worker or a farm worker or a peasant had of going to high school or junior college, not to mention university?
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