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A Peppercorn Grinder Quern Or Other Device For Crushing Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is MILL which was last seen in the Telegraph Herculis crossword.
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noun

• a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

• Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

• machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

• English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

verb

• move about in a confused manner

• grind with a mill

• produce a ridge around the edge of

• roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

42%10Quern stones used in early mills
noun

• (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

• any load that is difficult to carry

• one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

32%10 Group of plants with peppercorn-like fruits
noun

• tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets

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Telegraph Herculis09 Jan 2023 Across 16
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