Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill; a building for milling or grinding.
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Examples
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At the last moment, as they made the final turn around the mill-house path, she turned swiftly to me and laid a stick-straight finger across her withered lips.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I would rather remain — if such must be the alternative — all my life in the mill-house, grinding for my very bread, than be brought forth to make sport for the Philistine lords and ladies.
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In among the crests of the willows, he caught a glimpse of a mill near-by on a branch stream, and of the thatched roof of the mill-house where the house-leeks were growing.
Eve and David 2007
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In among the crests of the willows, he caught a glimpse of a mill near-by on a branch stream, and of the thatched roof of the mill-house where the house-leeks were growing.
Eve and David 2007
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Each will take the week's supply of ear-corn and potatoes for her household -- a peck for each member of the family, large and small -- and will grind her own grist at the mill-house, or more probably trade away the entire supply at the cross-roads store for flour, sugar and coffee.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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But this question she could not ask him, for Sarah hardly liked to own to herself that she was a little ashamed of her uncle Howroyd; at least, not exactly ashamed, but she did not mean to take Horatia Cunningham to see him or the old-fashioned mill-house in which William Howroyd and his father had lived for three or four generations.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Sarah was looking out of the mill-house window when she saw the car drive up to the big gates of the little front-garden.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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These 3½ ton blocks are taken on a bogie to the mill-house, where the mill melting pot is charged with them by means of a double-powered hydraulic crane, lifting, however, with the single power only.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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If she went outside the mill-house, it was only for a few steps for a few moments.
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The mill-house was a gaunt and gloomy building of stone, as gray as sleep, weatherstained with dreams.
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