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Grinding mill

Grinding \Grind"ing\, a. & n. from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. Grinding mill.

  1. A mill for grinding grain.

  2. A lapidary's lathe.

Usage examples of "grinding mill".

The pug mill can either be used on it's own, when earths are known to be free of stones and limestone lumps, or used in conjunction with the grinding mill.

Dust puffed from the fabric, settling slowly toward the polished floor stones that had come from an abandoned grinding mill.

At Lamb House, I am fitted out like the latest, most modern manufactory, geared for the most intense production, with a chief engineer who is hopelessly wedded to that intricate, fine-grinding mill that he performs upon with a positively virtuoso's touch .

Second, we find that our rock is being ground to dust in an underground rock-grinding mill.

No black dots on the horizon evolving quickly into Japanese Zeros or German Mescherschmidts swooping low over town with machine guns blazing and bombs tumbling down on the houses, the churches, the train station and even the grinding mill next to the railroad tracks.

But I was trapped between the giant grinding mill-wheel of alternativity.

The asteroid belt is a great grinding mill, producing smaller and smaller pieces down to motes of dust.

There, between a stone grinding mill and a clay outdoor oven, a doorway led into what was doubtless a kitchen, wherein two women could be heard arguing.