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Definition of Coffee mill
1. Noun. A mill that grinds roasted coffee beans.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Mill
Literary usage of Coffee mill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"1828 — Charles Parker, Meriden, Conn., begins work on the original Charles Parker
coffee mill. 1829 — The flrst French patent on a coffee mill is granted ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Vide COFFEE-MILL. Peppered (turf), used in reference to a man who has laid large
stakes on a horse. He was peppered in one dangerous quarter alone to the ..."
3. Danish Folk Tales: From the Danish of Svend Grundtvig, E. T. Kristensen by Evald Tang Kristensen, Leopold Budde, Sven Grundtvig, Ingvor Andreas Nicolaj Bondesen (1899)
"You were always a good boy, and therefore you shall have my only treasure, a
coffee-mill which I have always kept at the bottom of my old chest. ..."
4. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1905)
"... for the samples had been months out of the ground in tin cans and sacks, and
must have suffered loss in reducing to coffee-mill size. ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Cf., COFFEE-MILL. COKE. Go AND EAT COKE, verb, phr. (vulgar).—A phrase indicative
of contempt. A corollary is ' and evacuate, or s—t cinders. ..."
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