flour bin
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- noun
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contenedor de harina
- She said I stole the cash she had been keeping in her flour bin.
Examples
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I called in sick at work on Tuesday, Aunt Grace's podiatrist day, and I let myself in with my key and put the money in the flour bin.
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May scooped flour from the flour bin with the sifter and began measuring and sifting the flour for biscuits.
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"That flour bin's famous!" I said.
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So I took it out of the flour bin and moved it elsewhere.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Two thousand nine hundred and sixty was what she told me she had in her flour bin.
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The kitchen maid prepared some dough, baked a pie with eel and raisins, and hid it in the flour bin.
Fiction book (1998) -
Dick drags open the flour bin drawer and, from its lip, cleverly mounts to the countertop.
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I opened the flour bin to get some flour for the cake I was baking.
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The baker kept the flour bin filled with fresh flour for daily bread-making.
Synonyms
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A container with a lid for storing or throwing away things
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Morphology
The meaning 'a container for holding flour' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'flour' (fine powder from grains) with 'bin' (a storage container). This is a straightforward noun-noun compound following regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The name flour bin comes from a simple kitchen picture: a box or bin used to hold flour, often with a lid so it stays dry and is easy to scoop. That's why flour bin means 'a container for storing flour'.