grinding mill

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grinding
adjective
uk
/ˈɡraɪn.dɪŋ/us
/ˈɡraɪn.dɪŋ/
a situation in which people are extremely poor over a ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk
/mɪl/us
/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition ofgrindingandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One has to have a miniaturegrindingmillin order to reduce the grain to flour.
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I have my own littlegrindingmilland it can be set to grind fine, medium or coarse.
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The shield itself shows a salamander as the symbol of chemistry, and a corngrindingmillas a symbol of continuous processes.
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Locals either purchase the meal in retail outlets or produce it in agrindingmillfrom their own maize.
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The village has attracted considerable attention from aid organizations, with construction of a school,grindingmill, primary health care center etc.
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A decade later, the village had grown to include a saw andgrindingmilland a church, and it population stood at 68.
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The deal included an electricgrindingmillmachine and an old, four-story mill building with original equipment.
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In thegrindingmill, the material is loaded cut into crude pieces or lumps and loaded into a hopper.
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Firstly, it screens out the coarse particles and recirculates them back to thegrindingmillmachine.
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Suchard used agrindingmillconsisting of a heated granite plate, and several granite rollers moving forwards and backwards.
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There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them.
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Among the modern structures, there remain the buildings of the old grinding mills.
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The period between 1967 and 1987 saw the institution invest heavily in pick-up trucks, finance and the finance of grinding mills.
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Both the fabric and grinding mills were originally powered by water wheels fed from a ruisseau or stream.
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The production of snuff was heavy work: enormous sheaves of tobacco were hauled around manually, and horses turned the grinding mills.
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The ore is run through a concentrator, where huge grinding mills reduce it to the consistency of face powder.
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It is an alternative to the hammermill or other forms of grinding mills.
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Protected villages quickly proved insufficient, forcing people to live without access to food (stores and grinding mills were closed), clean water, or toilets.
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In tower mills, there is no cascading action as in standard grinding mills.
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