handmill

Alternatively, my not knowing what a handmill is demonstrates Kant's point over again.

Notes on 'Seeing Is Reading' 2005

The chief articles of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse-cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

The chief articles of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse-cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

[p. 293] of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse - cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

A monarchy, an animate body, and a "handmill" — whatever that is — are unlike; a monarchy is not an entity whose properties are completely definable.

Seeing Is Reading 2005

Puree the soup in a blender, food processor, or handmill.

Marketing Bling L. Lee Lowe 2007

Puree the soup in a blender, food processor, or handmill.

Archive 2007-02-01 L. Lee Lowe 2007

Then Bahram opened a bag and taking out a handmill and a sufficiency of wheat, ground the grain and kneaded three round cakes of the flour; after which he lighted a fire and baked the bannocks.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The handmill, like any other single term, can be an example whose content is bracketed: there is nothing in this handmill. close window

Notes on 'Seeing Is Reading' 2005

The diggings yielded only big pieces of salt fallen from the walls, and a broken handmill of basalt.

The Land of Midian 2003