0 a machine used to rub or press something until it becomes a powder: --
1 a long, thin roll (= a loaf of bread for one person) filled with meat or cheese, and often lettuce, tomatoes, etc.: --
2 a machine for crushing or cutting something into very small pieces: --
a meat grinder
They also supplied a list of some 100 machine tools, mainly capstans and other lathes, grinders and milling machines, which they would no longer need.
They were known as finders, minders and grinders.
I cannot remember the quotation about organ grinders, bur.
They wanted grinders and he applied for work.
The scheme needs to be expanded and ought to include pulmonary diseases, which affect grinders intensely.
I would call out the 8 or 10 tool grinders.
Salt-mills and attendant grinders have no doubt all been ground away by ruthless rationalisation.
They have left the monkeys to try to defend the indefensible while the organ grinders are safely abed.
