Grinding

Examples

• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The table is then pushed under a huge grinding machine and the slate surface is made plane, as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can make it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I catch him coming on post, again pass him as unaware of his existence, and again he undergoes grinding torments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These chunks are then run through grinding machines, which reduce the chicle to a coarse meal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The diamond is the hardest known substance in the world, cutting and grinding all other known hard things, but itself only cut and ground by its mates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Near the tumblers are the grinding wheels, upon which are ground off the rough edges and the castings put into shape for the machine shop. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An Italian was grinding an organ before the shop, and a miserable little shrivelled monkey was sitting on the instrument. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When the chicle arrives at one of the chewing-gum factories it is immediately turned over to the grinding department. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Several hours later I heard the truck ahead of us grinding into gear. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The best fine grinding-machines that it was then possible to obtain were so inefficient as to involve a loss of 82 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Or a cider mill in the grinding, or bread fresh from the oven? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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