flour mill

noun

1. a mill for grinding grain into flour.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flour mill¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

I’ll make pancakes with only half whole grain from a local flour mill.

From Eater

At San Gabriel the first California flour-mill worked by a stream of water turning the wheel, was put up.

From Project Gutenberg

The first flour-mill worked by water was put up at San Gabriel Mission, and it was thought a wonderful thing indeed.

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I don't think that I ever saw a flour mill in my life until I saw your funny little church.

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Inside it was as dusty and full of a powdery atmosphere as an old-fashioned flour mill.

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It was altogether against the grain with him, and yet by his own consent, that the flour-mill had been opened at Fiskerville.

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