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‖ trapiche|traˈpitʃe|
[American Sp. trapíche, derivative of L. trapētum oil-press.]
1. A mill for crushing the sugar-cane; a sugar-mill; also, a sugar plantation.
1648Gage West Ind. 179 There was in my time a new Trapiche of Sugar. 1844B. Mayer Mexico 197 On the east is another huge edifice where the boilers, engines, crushing machines, cooling vats, moulding apartments, etc., constitute the trapiche of the hacienda. 1896Nat. Geog. Mag. July 242 The trapiche or sugar-cane press of the chief. Here two huge wooden rollers..pressed the cane stalks and large metal vessels received the juice.
2. A rude form of mill for grinding ores.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Trapiche, a rude grinding machine, composed of two stones, of which the upper is fastened to a long pole. |