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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.
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.