flour mill
noun
a mill for grinding grain into flour.
Origin of flour mill
1First recorded in 1800–10
Words Nearby flour mill
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How to use flour mill in a sentence
I’ll make pancakes with only half whole grain from a local flour mill.
At San Gabriel the first California flour-mill worked by a stream of water turning the wheel, was put up.
Stories of California | Ella M. SextonThe first flour-mill worked by water was put up at San Gabriel Mission, and it was thought a wonderful thing indeed.
Stories of California | Ella M. SextonI don't think that I ever saw a flour mill in my life until I saw your funny little church.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryInside it was as dusty and full of a powdery atmosphere as an old-fashioned flour mill.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane Grey
It was altogether against the grain with him, and yet by his own consent, that the flour-mill had been opened at Fiskerville.
The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope
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