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Meaning of coffee mill | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A mill at which coffee beans are dried, roasted, and ground prior to sale.
  2. A device designed for grinding coffee beans.

Examples

“A good road leads to Pohoiki, once the site of a coffee mill and a prosperous village, but now almost deserted.”
“Mary Goretihas run the Jalamba coffee mill near Kituntu for ten years.”
“During the boom period of the early 1890s, he converted his pineapple cannery into a coffee mill.”
“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.”
“After drying, put ingredients, small amounts at a time, into a coffee mill and grind to a spice-like consistency.”
“She held an ornate brass coffee mill under her left arm and used her right hand to grind the freshly toasted beans.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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