Definition of "cider-mill" [cider-mill]

• A mill for crushing apples to make cider; an establishment where cider is made. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We seek too soon to ally the perceptions of the mind to the experience of the hand, to prove our gossamer truths practical, to show their connection with our every-day life (better show their distance from our every-day life), to relate them to the cider-mill and the banking institution ...."
• "You may still wander through old orchards of native fruit of great extent, which for the most part went to the cider-mill, now all gone to decay."
• "It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill."