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coffee mill

coffee mill noun: a mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.

coffee mill: a mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale
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Noun

coffee mill (plural coffee mills)

  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.1985, John R. K. Clark, Beaches of the Big Island, page 41
    • Mary Goretihas run the Jalamba coffee mill near Kituntu for ten years.2002, Charis Gresser, Sophia Tickell, Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup, page 23
  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.1998, Glenn Andrews, Growing & Using Cilantro: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin, page A-181
    • After drying, put ingredients, small amounts at a time, into a coffee mill and grind to a spice-like consistency.2000, Gabriel Cousens, Conscious Eating, page 675
    Synonyms:
    coffee grinder

coffee mill meaning in Tamil

coffee mill in Tamil

காப்பிக்கொட்டை அரைப்பாலை

Examples of coffee mill in a sentence

  • During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.2003, Gerald Kinro, A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic, page 14:
  • She held an ornate brass coffee mill under her left arm and used her right hand to grind the freshly toasted beans.2012, Nada Saleh, New Flavours of the Lebanese Table:

Synonyms of coffee mill

Forms of coffee mill

pluralcoffee mills
alternative formcoffee-mill
alternative formcoffeemill

Questions about coffee mill

What does coffee mill mean?
Coffee mill means a mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.
What is coffee mill in Tamil?
Coffee mill in Tamil is காப்பிக்கொட்டை அரைப்பாலை. See Coffee mill meaning in Tamil.
How do you use coffee mill in a sentence?
During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.
What part of speech is coffee mill?
Coffee mill is a noun.
What is the plural of coffee mill?
The plural of coffee mill is coffee mills.

Words near coffee mill in the dictionary

  1. coffee making
  2. coffee man
  3. coffee men
  4. coffee milk
  5. coffee milks
  6. coffee mill
  7. coffee mills
  8. coffee moffie
  9. coffee money
  10. coffee morning
  11. coffee mornings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffee mill (page history and authors); coffee mill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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