trapichen.
1. A mill for crushing the sugar cane; a sugar mill; also, a sugar plantation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > sugar-cane > sugar-cane plantation
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar mill
sugar mill1600
trapiche1844
sugar-crusher1870
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 179 There was in my time a new Trapiche of Sugar.
1844 B. 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.
1896 National Geographic 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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore
stamping-mill1552
bucker1653
buck1683
stamp-mill1752
Ball stamp1860
jaw-breaker1877
jaw-crusher1877
spaller1877
arrastre1881
trapiche1881
gravitation stamp1894
ball mill1895
gravity stamp1903
slugger1903
tube-mill1909
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 187 Trapiche, a rude grinding machine, composed of two stones, of which the upper is fastened to a long pole.
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