Sentence Examples

  • A grinding noise jerked her attention back to the car.
  • Steel used for cutting as distinguished from grinding, seems to owe its hardness.
  • Her knees hit the floor with a grinding jolt, and the fox seized the opportunity.
  • Either (I) by the Mexican crusher or arrastra, in which the grinding is effected upon a bed of stone, over which heavy blocks of stone attached to cross arms are dragged by the rotation of the arms about a central spindle, or (2) by the Chilean mill or trapiche, also known as the edge-runner, where the grinding stones roll upon the floor, at the same time turning about a central upright - contrivances which are mainly used for the preparation of silver ores; but by far the largest proportion of the gold quartz of California, Australia and Africa is reduced by (3) the stamp mill, which is similar in principle to that used in Europe for the preparation of tin and other ores.
  • There can be little doubt that before the AngloSaxons came to Britain they possessed no instrument for grinding corn except the quern (cweorn), and in remote districts this continued in use until quite late times.
 
» more...

Also Mentioned In

WORDS NEAR grinding IN THE THESAURUS