What is "grinders"

Usage examples of "grinders".

The lamps they kindled shone blurrily through the mist, lighting the shopfronts and street stalls and pushcarts of knife grinders, pasta makers, coral carvers, cheesemongers, mallow gatherers, birdseed sellers, porcelain menders, all still crying their wares and services to the passersby hurrying home for the night.

The band's cimbalist, Gombocz Elemér, after a hard day's practice, was one night strolling in the precincts of Notre-Dame, where there were always wandering street singers, barrel-organ grinders, stilt walkers, bawling peddlers of food, drink, plaster madonnas, glass-bead rosaries and chromos of the Last Supper.

Hrriss yawned broadly, showing fangs, incisors, and grinders that Todd always found an impressive array.

The fresh ceramic with which teams resealed the vessels' stress-cracked hulls was black, and the sound of grinders processing the dense rock into raw material for the glazing kilns was nerve-wracking and omnipresent.

My chest muscles relaxed for the first time in the three days since the grinders had started work.

When he came to power, he hired in his own bean grinders, and reinvested his chocha-la profits back into that enterprise.

But the bean keeps better in its unshelled form, and the Hanqu spice grinders could get luxury prices for any chocha-la they could process in what now is idle time between seasons.