roller mill

American  

noun

1. any mill that pulverizes, flattens, or otherwise changes material, as grain, by passing it between rolls.

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Etymology

Origin of roller mill

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

To crush Kernza, a roller mill designed for wheat and barley must be cranked all the way down to its tightest setting.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

Our bodies are at the poorer end of a century-long process of mass degeneration that started with white flour from the roller mill.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve

A minute before his thought had been on the new roller mill he had recently bought and was now working in his primitive little building, which he had slightly remodelled.

From The Miller Of Old Church by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

In some cases, as stated above, iron disks and concave mills are substituted for the roller mill, but the operation is substantially the same.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various

The rotary motion of millstones became the essential principle of the trituration of grain, and exists to-day in the rolls of the roller mill.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various