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A sugar mill.

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Usage examples (6)
  • There is also what is left of an old trapiche (sugar-mill) to turn sugar-cane into molasses.
  • Star Emerald - Usually refers to trapiche emerald (above), but may also correctly refer to the rare occurrence of an emerald displaying asterism
  • In the evening we visited the trapiche, as they call the sugar-works, the sugar-boilers, warehouses, store-rooms, and engines.
  • Although there are a few oxen in the savannahs round the mission, they are rarely employed in turning the mill (trapiche), to express the juice of the sugar-cane; this...
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