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▪ I. ˈwalk-mill1 Now rare.
[f. walk v.2 + mill n. Cf. G. walkmühle.]
A fulling-mill.
1359Mem. Ripon (Surtees) I. 282 Juxta aquam quæ currit usque le Walkemilne. 1473in Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 188 The tendis of the corn mil and walkmyl remenand fre to the abbay. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 312 [The flood] buir away the walkmylnes. 1601Holland Pliny xxxv. xi. II. 550 Simus took pleasure in painting a yong man lying asleepe in a waulke mill or Fullers worke-house. 1710in Nairne Peerage Evid. (1874) 153 With multures walkmiln and pertinents therof. 1894R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorld. 165 The ‘steads’ or sites of many disused ‘walk mills’ or fulling mills upon the Kent.
b. Comb.
1344Mem. Ripon (Surtees) I. 141 Jacens in le Walkmyln⁓banke. c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 314 His luddokkys thai lowke like walk-mylne cloggys.
Hence ˈwalk-miller.
1752in Scots Mag. (1753) July 338/1 Angus Macdonald waulk-miller in Anchofragan.
▪ II. ˈwalk-mill2
[walk v.1 or n.]
A mechanical contrivance or machine, the driving power of which is furnished by the walking of a horse, etc.
1773W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 286 List of Machines &c... Walk-mill. 1892Daily News 15 Nov. 3/1 If there is no wind to supply the necessary power, the leader hopes that twelve men will be able to furnish it by means of a walk-mill, arranged on deck. |