挽く — meaning in English

English meaning

• grind verb To crush or wear something down into smaller pieces through friction, such as grinding coffee beans.
• mill noun A machine, or the building housing it, used to grind grain into flour.
• saw noun A hand or power tool with a toothed or abrasive blade, used for cutting hard materials like wood or metal.

Senses

挽く is used for these senses in English:

• grind (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• mill (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

grind — full definition

1. verb To crush or wear something down into smaller pieces through friction, such as grinding coffee beans.
2. verb To work hard and persistently at something difficult, often for a long stretch of time.
3. noun Tedious, repetitive hard work or effort.

mill — full definition

1. noun A machine, or the building housing it, used to grind grain into flour.
2. noun A factory that processes a raw material, such as paper, steel, or cloth.
3. noun An institution or business that churns out large quantities of something with little regard for quality, often used dismissively.
4. verb To grind, cut, or shape material using a mill or milling machine.
5. verb Of a crowd, to move around aimlessly or in a disorganised way (usually as "mill about/around").

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