coffee-mill

See also: coffee mill and coffeemill

English

Noun

coffee-mill (plural coffee-mills)

  1. Alternative form of coffee mill
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick: Or the Whale:
      Hark! he's muttering—voice like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!”
    • 2003, Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave, page 39:
      January's voice was dry as he held the coffee-mill steady for Rose to pour in the beans.
    • 2011, J. B. Marsden, Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden of Paramatta:
      He made several attempts to grind his corn with the help of a coffee-mill borrowed from a trading-ship, but without success; and now, like the inventor of steam navigation, and other benefactors of their species nearer home, he was laughed at for his simplicity.
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