flouring, vbl. n.
(ˈflaʊərɪŋ)
[f. flour v. + -ing1.]
1. U.S. The action or process of grinding grain into flour: also attrib. in flouring-mill, ‘a mill for making flour, usually on a large scale; distinguished from grist-mill’ (Cent. Dict.). Also flouring mill-stone.
| 1797 Southampton (N.Y.) Rec. III. 353 John Jermain [shall] have privilege..of erecting a grist mill..for flouring or for packing. 1797 N.Y. State Soc. Arts I. 375 Possessing some flouring mills, I was naturally led to converse at times with my millers..on the economy of water in grinding. 1842 Amer. Pioneer I. 204 In the city and its vicinity are twenty-five pairs of flouring mill⁓stones. 1855 Clarke Dict., Flouring, flour business. 1859 Bartlett Dict. Amer. 156 Flouring-Mill, a grist-mill. 1888 Amer. Anthropologist Oct. I. No. 4. 307 The way from the mealing-stone to the flouring-mill is long. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Sept. 4/3 Fire destroyed the Alpine buckwheat flouring mill, which was to have resumed operations next week. |
2. (See quot. 1869.)
| 1869 R. B. Smyth Goldfields Victoria 611 ‘Flouring’ is the forming of the mercury into small particles by the action of the reducing-machine and the subsequent coating of each particle by some sulphide, whereby the power of the particles to re-unite and to amalgamate with gold is lost. 1882 A. G. Locke Gold 21 The greater part of the flouring or sickening of the mercury used is due to the action of sulphate of iron. |