Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for grinding grain into flour; a flouring-mill.
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Examples
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Posner discusses somewhere the medieval common law requirement that someone planning to build a new flour-mill had to essentially buy customers from existing mills.
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Baghdad, and he used to sew in a shop hired from a man of much wealth, who dwelt over the shop,635 and there was also a flour-mill in the basement.
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At an iron-foundry I was surprised to find that steam-engines and flour-mill machinery could not be manufactured fast enough to meet the demand.
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There is enough water running to drive a flour-mill in two or three places.
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If the flour-mill had frightened him, what must the present project have done!
The Way We Live Now 2004
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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
The Way We Live Now 2004
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Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the hook-nosed consort of the owner of the flour-mill.
Main Street 2004
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The ride had comforted Pin a little; but when they had passed the chief stores and the flour-mill, and were come to a part of the road where the houses were fewer, her tears broke out afresh.
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He had married, some months later, the charming daughter of another Luxembourg Princess, extremely rich, because she was the only daughter of a Prince who was the proprietor of an immense flour-mill.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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It also includes a R30 million loan for a flour-mill in Lesotho and two new investments in South Africa and Namibia totalling R24 million - to be used towards refrigerated transportation for perishable goods and to assist DTB, a subsidiary of African
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