Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for grinding corn. More generally called a grist-mill.
- noun A small mill with a runner and concave of iron, used for grinding Indian corn on the cob for feeding stock.
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Examples
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I shall not be happy till I have made it up: I never am happy till I am friends with my neighbours; so to-morrow I must make a pilgrimage to Royd corn-mill, soothe the miller, and praise the grain; and next day I must call at De Walden - where I hate to go - and carry in my reticule half an oat-cake to give to Mr. Sam's favourite pointers. '
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One of the brooks turns a corn-mill, and at least one produces trouts.
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Recently I saw in a paper a picture of the last decrepitude of the once thriving corn-mill beside its pool that long ago seemed to me so important.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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The Lincoln homestead in Indiana, in 1820-23, had at the first the primitive corn-mill in the Indian fashion -- a burnt-out block with a pounder rigged to a well-sweep.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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With equal energy and success it will flow north or south; it will turn a corn-mill, or a threshing-machine, or a grindstone.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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He was superintending the erection of a new corn-mill, and whilst seeing to its being properly started, incautiously stretched his arm over two cog-wheels.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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The greatest of his benefactions to his neighbors were: His corn-mill erected in 1654, and his saw-mill in 1659.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various
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Huge factories and foundries rise from the banks of the stream; the ford is spanned by a substantial bridge; the corn-mill has disappeared, and so have the rheumatic-looking old mossy cottages.
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson
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On Sunday afternoons colliers and potters, gathered round the jawbone of a whale which then stood as a natural curiosity on the waste space near the corn-mill, would discuss the fray, and make bets for next
Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899
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The early years of the nineteenth century looked on no more characteristic farmhouse than that where dwelt Diarmid Garland and his brood, on the bank above the swift-running water-race which turned the corn-mill with such deftness that people came from as far as Stranryan to admire.
Patsy 1887
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