| 单词 | coffee-mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoffee-mill coffee-mill n. a small hand-mill for grinding roasted coffee-beans; (see also quots. 1887, 1916). Π 1691 North in Autobiog. (1887) 225 I desire..you will get me a very good coffee mill. 1780 Biographia Britannica (ed. 2) II. 315 His father..was a coffee-mill-maker. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in California ii. 21 Jacob..could not make the coffee-mill perform its appropriate duty. 1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston III. iii. 69 Then he heard..a stirring in the kitchen under him, and presently the noise of the coffee-mill. 1887 H. L. Williams ‘Buffalo Bill’ 10 One of the old-pattern Colts, with the barrels revolving, the ancient ‘coffee-mill’ or ‘pepper-box’, laughed at all over the West in the present day. 1904 A. Bennett Great Man xxiv. 268 She brought him the coffee-mill full of coffee, and told him to grind it. 1916 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 601/1 A quaint mechanical rifle, described as a mitrailleuse, which was an improved revival of the ‘coffee-mill’ used in the American Civil War. < as lemmas |
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