Flour

Definition of Flour

Pronunciation: flour

n.

1.

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

Flour bolt
in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones.

Flour box
a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box.

Flour dredge
a flour box.

Flour dresser
a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness.

Flour mill
a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

v. t.

1.

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

[imp. & p. p. Floured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouring.]

2.

To sprinkle with flour.

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