Definition

1. 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

1. mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider