Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for grinding malt.
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Examples
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Colonel Bridger had a malt-mill, and John Fisher a still.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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They must be first peeled, which can be done by children, then rasped or dried, and ground in a malt-mill, or any other common steel mill.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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At Bristol he was joined by three partners of the same persuasion, who provided the necessary capital to enable him to set up works at Baptist Mills, near that city, where he carried on the business of malt-mill making, to which he afterwards added brass and iron founding.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Mills, near that city, where he carried on the business of malt-mill making, to which he afterwards added brass and iron founding.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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a cask of brandy, a cask of old whiskey, and a malt-mill listed as worn out.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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