The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flour \Flour\ (flour), n. [F. fleur de farine the flower (i.e., the best) of meal, cf. Sp. flor de la harina superfine flour, Icel. fl["u]r flower, flour. See Flower.] The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones.
Flour box a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box.
Flour dredge or Flour dredger, a flour box.
Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness.
Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.
WordNet
n. a mill for grinding grain into flour
Usage examples of "flour mill".
It is my youngest cousin will be wed, and her the only child of my uncle, who owns the flour mill.
By the time the first arrows were flying, she had reached the door to the flour mill.
It was the Dufur White Flour Mill, which operated from 1872 through the 1930s, using millstones that had come around the Cape of Good Hope in 1870.
This is not a great complication on something like a flour mill, because only one operator is required and he can work strange hours if the situation requires it.
This was a perfect law for the governance of the flour mill that A proposed building.
Gentlemen in their prime -- the owner of a large flour mill, a hotel-owner with his slightly rouged young friend, a nobleman high in the councils of an important business firm, a whole tableful of men's clothing manufacturers who were in town for a board meeting, the bald actor who was known in the Cellar as the Gnasher, because he gnashed his teeth when he wept -- all were in tears before the ladies joined in.