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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quantity of meal sent to a mill to be ground at one time.

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Examples

  • These quick courses obviously won't qualify you to walk through a glass window in Christopher Nolan's latest mind-melder, but they do give ordinary groups, usually of eight, a chance to try many types of action work.

    The fall guy: a day at stuntman school 2010

  • Steven Spielberg, that melder of the minds of the masses for our quarter century, brought out everyone's favorite dino models, including one of the oldest fossils in the entertainment business, the Deus-Ex-Machina - asaurus, when at the end T.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Reprints for Dinner Again (from1993) 2009

  • Mary, and that she had been directed to conduct him so far on the road; and that Ball, her palfrey, had fallen by the way, because he had been over-wrought with carrying home the last melder of meal to the portioner of Langhope; and that she had turned in Ball to graze in the

    The Monastery 2008

  • "But if you've got an expert melder, it's possible."

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • Han lar min bror Jacques studere, og rygtet melder om hans store fremgang.

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • Hvad melder _De_ mig om _Dem_ selv, Laertes? and two lines below:

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • That ilka melder wi 'the miller [every meal-grinding]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • Besides, a bag was suspended in the mill for David Ritchie's benefit; and those who were carrying home a melder of meal, seldom failed to add a gowpen,

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • "When we wor little 'uns, fadther used to give me an Hubert a silver saxpence the day he browt home t' fresh melder fro 't' mill," said Polly;

    Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885

  • He proved to be a novelist with an expansive, eccentric imagination for language, for settings and for plot, a free melder of realism, psychological astuteness, historical research and science fiction.

    NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2011

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