挽

Meaning

挽 centers on a back-and-forth or rotating motion to shape or reduce material: sawing, turning on a lathe, or grinding. The common thread is using a tool to cut or wear something down.

• 挽回ばんかい

  recovery; regaining; getting back; retrieval; restoration; revival

• 挽くひく

  to saw

• 挽歌ばんか

  elegy; funeral song

• 木挽きこびき

  sawyer

• お茶を挽くおちゃをひく

  to have no customers (of a geisha, prostitute, etc.); to have no engagements

• コーヒー挽きコーヒーひき

  coffee mill; coffee grinder

• 合い挽きあいびき

  (mixture of) ground beef and pork

• 合い挽き肉あいびきにく

  (mixture of) ground beef and pork

• 名誉挽回めいよばんかい

  restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself

• 挽きたてひきたて

  freshly ground (coffee, pepper, etc.)

• 挽き割りひきわり

  sawing lengthwise (timber, lumber)

• 挽き割るひきわる

  to saw

• 挽き台ひきだい

  sawhorse; sawbuck

• 挽き臼ひきうす

  quern; hand mill

• 挽き茶ひきちゃ

  powdered green tea (steamed and dried before being stone-ground)

• 挽物ひきもの

  turned article; lathe work

• 木挽小屋こびきごや

  sawyer's shed

• 木挽歌こびきうた

  sawyer's song (a traditional woodcutters' work song)

• 粗挽きあらびき

  coarsely ground (e.g. coffee, grain); minced (e.g. meat)

• 粗挽きウインナーあらびきウインナー

  arabiki; arabiki sausage; coarsely ground sausage

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