flour mill
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- noun
- /flaʊər mɪl/
:
molino de harina
- The local flour mill supplies fresh flour to bakeries across the region.
Examples
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While nature was of utmost importance to Hine, he did not neglect the industrial world; harbors, flour mills, silk factories, sugar refineries, potteries, and other industries became subjects.
Academic text (2011) -
But the urban economy was relatively diversified, with railroad shops, foundries, brick and clothing factories, marble and stone works, breweries, and flour mills all serving to attract industrial workers to the city.
Academic text (1992) -
The first two offers included a flour mill and a petroleum distribution.
Academic text (1993) -
Over the roof of Samuel Kahn's flour mill and the roof of Unterrecht's bakery.
Fiction book (2000) -
In 1856, he started construction of a six-story flour mill near the Eastern Wharves, partly with financing from his associates in Augusta.
Academic text (2009) -
The village clustered about the log-built stronghold of the feudal lord, with its flour mill, forge, bakery, and chapel.
Blog text (22) -
In the middle years, he acted as a blockade runner and even repurchased the Eastern Wharves and three-quarters interest in the flour mill from his father.
Academic text (2009) -
John K. Mullen, born in 1847 in County Galway, who began his working life as a laborer at the age of fourteen, owned a number of flour mills and was one of the wealthiest men in Denver by the mid-1880s.
Academic text (1992) -
Campbell's Five Year Industrial Plan (FYIP) emphasized the cultivation of small gardens and small plots of wheat, the construction of a flour mill and a sawmill, and sheep grazing.
Academic text (1999) -
After the storm, the old flour mill was found to have sustained significant damage.
Synonyms
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9.8
A mill that grinds grain into flour for local farmers
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3.6
A building where flowing water turns a wheel and machines grind grain or cut wood
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Morphology
The compound 'flour mill' is directly compositional: combining 'flour' (powder from grain) with 'mill' (a device for grinding) yields a place or machine that grinds grain to produce flour. This noun+noun compounding is a transparent, cross-linguistic pattern and a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Flour mill comes from the simple image of a mill that grinds grain into flour. Long ago, big stones or a wheel turned by a river would grind the grain into a fine powder, so the name simply means the building or machine that 'produces flour'.