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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for crushing apples to make cider; an establishment where cider is made.
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Examples
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We seek too soon to ally the perceptions of the mind to the experience of the hand, to prove our gossamer truths practical, to show their connection with our every-day life (better show their distance from our every-day life), to relate them to the cider-mill and the banking institution ....
Guest posts 2010
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We seek too soon to ally the perceptions of the mind to the experience of the hand, to prove our gossamer truths practical, to show their connection with our every-day life (better show their distance from our every-day life), to relate them to the cider-mill and the banking institution ....
A Different Stripe: 2009
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We seek too soon to ally the perceptions of the mind to the experience of the hand, to prove our gossamer truths practical, to show their connection with our every-day life (better show their distance from our every-day life), to relate them to the cider-mill and the banking institution ....
A Conversation with Damion Searls about Thoreau's Journal 2009
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We seek too soon to ally the perceptions of the mind to the experience of the hand, to prove our gossamer truths practical, to show their connection with our every-day life (better show their distance from our every-day life), to relate them to the cider-mill and the banking institution ....
Navelgazing 2009
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The loft, over the part where the cider-mill was, was the corn-house.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various
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There was a time with them when they never dreamed that their stomachs were not as strong as a cider-mill, and could grind anything and everything which their greedy natures and careless habits desired.
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You may still wander through old orchards of native fruit of great extent, which for the most part went to the cider-mill, now all gone to decay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Then there stood by the Deacon's cider-mill three figures.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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"Send them to the cider-mill, or feed them to the pigs," said Harry.
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Laura Lee Hope
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