coffee mill

Definitions

1. 1

   A mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.

   • A good road leads to Pohoiki, once the site of a coffee mill and a prosperous village, but now almost deserted.
   • Mary Goretihas run the Jalamba coffee mill near Kituntu for ten years.
   • During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.
2. 2

   A device designed for grinding coffee beans.

   • The best way to do the grinding is in an electric coffee mill, if you happen to have one, but the old mortar-and-pestle routine works well, too.
   • After drying, put ingredients, small amounts at a time, into a coffee mill and grind to a spice-like consistency.
   • She held an ornate brass coffee mill under her left arm and used her right hand to grind the freshly toasted beans.

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