Definition of "hand-mill" [hand-mill]

• A mill for grinding grain, pepper, coffee, etc., worked by hand, as distinguished from those driven by steam, water, or other power; specifically, a quern (as in the extract). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "“The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.”"
• "Marx's simple formula, "the hand-mill gives you the feudal lord" (German Ideology) makes scientific knowledge impossible; likewise with Karl Mannheim's deterministic sociology of knowledge (Ideology And Utopia)."
• "Now rolled the thunder, then flashed the lightning; that from the noise of the hand-mill, this from the reflection of the candle; when thought the parrot to herself,"