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Stamp Mill

Definition: Stamp Mill

Stamp Mill

Noun

1. A mill in which ore is crushed with stamps.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Stamp Mill

Domain	Definition
Mining	An apparatus, and the building containing it, in which rock is crushed by descending pestles (stamps), operated by water power or steam power. Amalgamation is usually combined with crushing when gold or silver is the metal sought, but copper, tin, and other ores are stamped to prepare themfor dressing. The technique is obsolete. Syn:stamp battery. (references)
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Synonym: Stamp Mill

Synonym: stamping mill (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Stamp Mill

English words defined with "stamp mill": quartz battery, quartz mill ♦ Stamp hammer, Stamp head, stamping mill. (references)

Specialty definitions using "stamp mill": Blanton cam ♦ guides ♦ stamp shoe. (references)

Photo Album: Stamp Mill

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	12,000 H.P. compound pump, Calumet and Hecla stamp mill, Lake Linden, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.		Ruins of stamp mill. Silver Peak, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Outmoded ore stamp mill on display at Silverton, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Interior. "Clean Up" day at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill, one of the Homestake Mills, Terraville, Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.
	De Smet Gold Stamp Mill, Central City, Dak. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Modern Translation: Stamp Mill

Language		Translations for "stamp mill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack). (various references)

Bulgarian		чукова мелница. (various references)

Hungarian		zúzómalom (breaker, bruiser, grinding mill). (various references)

Pig Latin		ampstay illmay

Russian		толчея (jam, jumble, stamp-mill). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tucalica. (various references)

Swedish		stenkross (stone-breaker). (various references)

Turkish		maden değirmeni. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Stamp Mill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-m-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: palmist.
	-3 letters: limpas, maills, milpas, pastil, plaits, smalti, spital, tallis.
	-4 letters: alist, imams, lamps, lapis, lilts, limas, limpa, limps, litas, maill, mails, maims, maist, malls, malms, malts, miasm, mills, milpa, milts, pails, palls, palms, pills, pimas, pitas, plait, plasm, plats, psalm, salmi, slipt, small, smalt, spail, spait, spall, spill, spilt, splat, split, stall.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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