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flour

Part of Speech: noun

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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.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

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

2. To sprinkle with flour.

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We were now, and had been since Billy was killed, living entirely on smoked horse; we only had a few pounds of flour left, which I kept in case of sickness; the sugar was gone; only a few sticks of tobacco for Mr. Tietkens and Gibson- Jimmy and I not smoking- remained. - "Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1", Ernest Giles.
Here, take this bag of flour and put it over in the corner. - "Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp", Percy Keese Fitzhugh.
He said there was power enough to turn the wheels to grind out ten thousand barrels of flour a day and to cut logs into millions of square feet of board every hour. - "What You Can Do With Your Will Power", Russell H. Conwell.

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