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coffee mill

noun

  1. a small mill for grinding roasted coffee beans.


coffee mill

noun

  1. a machine for grinding roasted coffee beans
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coffee mill1

First recorded in 1685–95
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Example Sentences

The 'old coffee mill,' as the sailors dubbed the paying-out gear, kept grinding away. '

Hey, Chick, get a move on wi that loadin there, said Bill; youre hardly keepin the ol coffee mill grindin.

Then came the Mississippi—the old spinning wheel, coffee mill, windmill, as the discontented sailor called her.

We passed a coffee-mill with big barbecues, and men spreading out the coffee on them with shovels.

You didn't hear that voice when you were patting round grandma's kitchen, making Ruthie's coffee-mill buzz.

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