cider mill
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Definition
- Noun:
- A mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider. It is a facility or machine designed specifically for crushing apples and pressing out their juice, which is then typically fermented to produce cider.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- We visited a traditional cider mill to see how apple cider is made.
- The old cider mill on the farm still uses a large stone press.
Advanced Usage
- "operate/run a cider mill": To manage or work a facility for making apple cider.
- His family has operated a cider mill for three generations.
- "cider mill season": Refers to the autumn period when apples are harvested and cider mills are most active.
- The town festival coincides with cider mill season.
Variants and Related Words
- Cidery (n): An establishment where cider is made; a cider brewery.
- The new cidery offers tours and tastings.
- Cider press (n): The specific pressing apparatus within a cider mill.
- They restored the antique cider press.
Synonyms
- Apple press: A machine for pressing apples to extract juice.
- Juice mill (in the specific context of apples): A mill for extracting fruit juice.
Related Phrases
(This term is a compound noun and does not typically form phrasal verbs.)
Related Idioms
(This term is a specific noun and is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions.)
Noun
- mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider