coffee grindern.
/ˈkɒfɪ ˌɡrʌɪndə/, U.S. /ˈkɔfi ˌɡraɪndər/, /ˈkɑfi ˌɡraɪndər/ 1.
a. A person whose occupation or business is grinding roasted coffee beans. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who grinds or pulverizes
grinder1483
coffee grinder1711
bruiser1921
1711 Spectator 28 Mar. 136 (advt.) John Sowton..to whose Place of Enterer of Messages and first Coffee-Grinder, William Bird is promoted.
1862 Boston Directory 169/1 Glines Elbridge G. coffee grinder, 2 Haymarket sq.
1898 Denver Evening Post 22 Sept. 8/3 There is a new coffee grinder for the guard house mess at Fort Logan, not a machine, but a prisoner.
1985 Financial Times 6 Nov. 32/3 Coffee for immediate delivery is currently being quoted locally at Cr 1.5m ($175) a bag, a price coffee grinders complain has forced a 60 per cent shutdown in the local industry.
b. A device (originally one operated manually by turning a crank, now often an electrical appliance) for grinding roasted coffee beans.
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1813 M. R. Hughs Aunt Mary's Tales for Little Boys iv. 133 He had the pleasure to find, that by means of the handle of an old coffee grinder, he could turn his cylinder round with great ease.
1867 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 9 Mar. Coffee mills, coffee grinders and roasters, and apple-paring machines.
1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 830/1 A small electric motor..may be used to operate any of the hand-power kitchen utensils such as coffee grinder..and food chopper.
1963 Illustr. London News 12 Jan. 43/1 (caption) A coffee grinder and an espresso machine equip his private coffee-bar.
2010 K. Danger Instant Bargains iv. 137 A coffee grinder costs less than $20 and is a good investment for java lovers.
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a. Frequently depreciative. A machine or vehicle likened to a mechanical coffee grinder, esp. in having a crank or a rotary motion, or in producing things quickly and mechanically.
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1868 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 22 Sept. You take a country drive in what is called in translated Dutch a coffee-grinder... The coffee grinder has seats facing the horse.
1884 Times of India 23 Aug. 6/4 The early Gatlings, when exhibited to General McClellan before Richmond, were contemptuously termed ‘coffee grinders’, and never brought into action.
1938 Washington Post 8 Feb. 9/1 The Morse telegraph operators are a noble but vanishing breed done out of their jobs by the coffee grinders which can push copy along at a rate of 45 or 50 words a minute.
1990 J. M. Mangan To Four Winds iv. 34/2 The batteries on NEA 62 failed..leaving them once more with the emergency ‘coffee grinder’. Shifts were arranged whereby each man cranked the equipment for ten minutes and rested five.
b. Sailing. A mechanism used to wind in a halyard or sheet (sheet n.2 1) on a yacht (esp. a racing yacht), consisting of a winch operated by one or more hand-powered cranks mounted on a pedestal so as to be turned in a vertical plane. Cf. grinder n. Additions.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > other equipment
rack1691
ice hook1694
searcher1775
fumigation-lamp1815
mete-stick1815
boat axe1820
devil's claw1833
telegraph1842
boat slide1854
anchor ball1858
umbrella warping1867
anchor ball1942
coffee grinder1952
1952 A. Knapp Race your Boat Right vii. 110 A few quick turns on a ‘coffee-grinder’ winch will do the trick.
1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Jan. 96 The Australian tyros were just not used to..coffee-grinders, precise sail-trimming, or much close round-the-buoys racing.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Aug. (Travel section) 8/4 I took a turn at one of the two ‘coffee grinders’, two-person winches used to raise sails.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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