trapiche

Star Emerald - Usually refers to trapiche emerald (above), but may also correctly refer to the rare occurrence of an emerald displaying asterism

EMRALD FACTS 2009

There is also what is left of an old trapiche (sugar-mill) to turn sugar-cane into molasses.

Venezuela's agrarian reform: Hacienda, chapel on Simon Bolivar historic route 2009

A mountain of fresh-cut canes stood near the door of the trapiche (the crushing-mill); and a gang of Indians were constantly going backwards and forwards carrying them in by armfuls; while a succession of mules were continually bringing in fresh supplies from the plantation to replenish the great heap.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The _trapiche_, or sugar-mill, is worked by a water-wheel, the first ever established in

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Although there are a few oxen in the savannahs round the mission, they are rarely employed in turning the mill (trapiche), to express the juice of the sugar-cane; this is the occupation of the

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In the evening we visited the trapiche, as they call the sugar-works, the sugar-boilers, warehouses, store-rooms, and engines.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

In the evening we visited the _trapiche_, as they call the sugar-works, the sugar-boilers, warehouses, store-rooms, and engines.

Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

Although there are a few oxen in the savannahs round the mission, they are rarely employed in turning the mill (trapiche), to express the juice of the sugar-cane; this is the occupation of the Indians, who work without pay here as they do everywhere when they are understood to work for the church.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The sugar industry, which by 1542 exported the staple to the amount of 110,000 arrobas of twenty-five pounds each, was standardized in plantations of two types -- the _trapiche_ whose cane was ground by ox power and whose labor force was generally thirty or forty negroes (each reckoned as capable of the labor of four Indians); and the _inqenio_, equipped with a water-power mill and employing about a hundred slaves. [

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

[Illustration: Trapiche.] [Footnote 125: The _trapiche_ or sugar-mill of the Andes is a rude affair.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853