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ˈhorse-mill
a. A mill driven by a horse; usually, by one walking in a circle or in a wheel.
1530Palsgr. 232/2 Horse myll, movlin a cheual. 1559in Boys Sandwich (1792) 738 The water must be conveyed awaye with horse mylnes. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) L ij, Like the machinery of a horse-mill. 1828P. Cunningham N. S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 65 Ten water-mills, eighteen windmills, and two horse-mills. 1848E. Bryant California xxi. 269 The flour consumed by Captain Sutter is ground by a very ordinary horse-mill. 1889Century Mag. Feb. 520/2 A horse-mill—a long pole on which a man sits, and to which a horse or mule is hitched. 1971Country Life 30 Sept. 848/1 Some of these groups of stone-built barns, byres and arcaded cartsheds, relieved on occasion by a circular horse-mill, [etc.].
b. fig. A monotonous round.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xi. (1651) 112 Desire hath no rest, and is infinite in it selfe, endlesse, and as one cals it, a perpetuall racke, or horse mill..still going round as in a ring. |