Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by context]
7. culinary equipment
8. [culinary equipment for preparing and cooking food]
9. [food mills, grinders and presses]
10. culinary mills

Narrower term/s

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Anotations

Scope note:

Hand-operated mills typically consisting of a slab with a slightly concave upper surface and a smaller, smooth, rounded stone, used for grinding or pulverizing grains or other food materials. They are distinguished from grinding wheels, which are abrasive disks used for cutting or smoothing materials such as metal, glass, plastics, or clay.