coffee mill

How to use coffee mill in a sentence

• The 'old coffee mill,' as the sailors dubbed the paying-out gear, kept grinding away. '

  Heroes of the Telegraph | J. Munro

• Hey, Chick, get a move on wi that loadin there, said Bill; youre hardly keepin the ol coffee mill grindin.

  Grapes of wrath | Boyd Cable

• Then came the Mississippi—the old spinning wheel, coffee mill, windmill, as the discontented sailor called her.

  The Hero of Manila | Rossiter Johnson

• We passed a coffee-mill with big barbecues, and men spreading out the coffee on them with shovels.

  Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 | Various

• You didn't hear that voice when you were patting round grandma's kitchen, making Ruthie's coffee-mill buzz.

  Aunt Madge's Story | Sophie May