The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cider \Ci"der\, n. [F. cidre, OF. sidre, fr. L. sicera a kind of strong drink, Gr. ?; of Oriental origin; cf. Heb. sh[=a]kar to be intoxicated, sh[=e]k[=a]r strong drink.] The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
Note: Cider was formerly used to signify the juice of other fruits, and other kinds of strong liquor, but was not applied to wine.
Cider brandy, a kind of brandy distilled from cider.
Cider mill, a mill in which cider is made.
Cider press, the press of a cider mill.
WordNet
n. mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider
Wikipedia
A cider mill is the location and equipment used to crush apples into apple juice for use in making apple cider, hard cider, applejack, apple wine, pectin and other products derived from apples. More specifically, it refers to a device used to crush or grind apples as part of the overall juice production.
The mills used to manufacture, ferment, store, and ship juice products are usually located near apple orchards. Historically, the types of structure and machinery have varied greatly — including horse powered, water driven, and machine operated mills. The presses can be fixed or portable.
Cider mills were subject to legal proceedings in New York state in the 1800s over whether they were "fixed to freeholds" and other cases addressing legal designation as to what kind of property a cider mill is.
Usage examples of "cider mill".
Rya and Cathy went out to the nearby barn in search of a couple of buckets and a length of rubber tubing-items that ought to be at hand in a cider mill, even now, long after the cider season.
Everybody knows you usually fish below the grist mill and the cider mill.
You can assist me in teaching, and Joshua can continue his studies and help us and James in the cider mill and shop.
As they drove through the countryside, Rosemary observed and remarked about every cider mill, gravel pit, corn crib, herd of cattle, stone barn, and split-rail fence.
We were in Smithfield now, past the country club on the left, past the low reedy meadow that was a bird sanctuary, and the place where they used to have a cider mill, to Summer Street, almost to Smithfield Center.
Nine miles up you can go an old logger's road a mile and a half to Town Road #6, which takes you to Big Anderson Road by Sites' Cider Mill.
They had come to Winesburg from some place in the South and ran a cider mill on the Trunion Pike.