a building in which grain is crushed and ground to make flour
flour mill in American English
noun
a mill for grinding grain into flour
Word origin
[1800–10]This word is first recorded in the period 1800–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chlorine, gong, hike, pueblo, sodium
Examples of 'flour mill' in a sentence
flour mill
They told me at the flour mill they asked for a hundred per cent pay rise.
Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)
There is a working water-powered flour mill, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They then help to load the sheaves on to donkeys, which carry them to a flour mill featuring a century-old millstone.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They also converted their parents' flour mill, which had been in the family for generations, from making white flour to making wholewheat flour.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The building's a bit modern, though - a mere stripling, built as a flour mill in 1833.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Given that she keeps chickens as well, all she needs in her garden is a flour mill and this could become a homegrown pudding.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A fourth body has been recovered from the wood flour mill that exploded just over a week ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Stare at a real blacksmith sweating, also under thatch, and the flour mill down the lane is thatched too.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The 10 flats and two townhouses were built within the walls of a former flour mill.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Entry to the converted flour mill is free, and you can find bonkers artworks, like papier mâché people pushing shopping trolleys.
The Sun (2015)
There's private fishing, a ruined flour mill with waterfall and mill pool, and several areas for outdoor entertaining.