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1840.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 129/1. To devise some simple and efficient means of working the ‘tahonas,’ or grinding mills used in the reduction of the silver ore in the mining districts.

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1875.  J. H. Collins, Metal Mining, 113. All the washings … are then ground fine in the ‘arrastre’ or ‘tahona,’ a rude mill of rough stones worked by mules.

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