单词 | corn-mill |
释义 | corn-milln. 1. A mill for grinding corn or grain; a flour-mill. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill millOE oat mill1482 corn-mill1523 grist-mill1602 barley-mill1797 flouring-mill1797 moulin1837 corn-grinder1841 grain-mill1867 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ix. f. 9v There be many maner of mylnes as cornemylnes, wyndmylnes, horsemylnes. 1625 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. A water corn mill. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 226 Man..can make corn mills..that grind the corn, he must else have pounded in a mortar. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 4 Where stood the corn-mill of the parish till the year 1703. Categories » 2. A machine for roughly grinding the cobs of Indian corn for stock-feeding purposes. U.S. Derivatives ˈcorn-miller n. a miller. ΚΠ 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 648/2 J. Shepard..corn-miller. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1523 |
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