To turn into flour. Webster, 1828. N.E.D.
1844. A farmer raises his crop of wheat, and sells it at the market price; it is floured, taken to New York, &c.—Mr. Rathbun of N.Y., House of Repr., May 7: Cong. Globe, p. 440, App.
1857. I should flour my wheat and cache it, and perhaps I shall lay some of it by in the wheat; but I shall flour it chiefly; for if it comes a tight time, I shall cache some portions of my mill, and then I shall not have a mill to grind any.—H. C. Kimball at the Mormon Tabernacle, Nov. 22: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ vi. 66.
1857. I am going to begin to collect all the wheat I can, flour it, and put it in good, dry boxes; and if it is well pressed down, I think it will keep longer than wheat: besides, the mice will not then be able to make such ravages upon it.—The same, Nov. 29: id., vi. 103.
