| 单词 | fulling mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfulling mill fulling mill n. now chiefly historical a mill in which cloth is fulled.In the earliest fulling mills, which were usually water-driven, the cloth was beaten with wooden mallets; subsequently rollers for pressing the cloth were introduced. [Compare Anglo-Norman molin fullerez and Old French, Middle French moulin fouleret (13th cent. in Old French).] ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mill waulk mill1241 fulling mill1388 tucking-mill1467 tuck-milla1641 fullery1728 tucking-stock1751 walk mill1773 plash-mill1795 waulking-mill1805 1388 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/332/59) Vnum molendinum ffullaticum vocatum ffollyngmelle. 1403 Close Roll, 4 Henry IV (P.R.O.: C 54/251) m. 27 dorso Vn molyn appell ffullyngmelne. 1501–2 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 150 For werke made to the fullyng mylle. 1613 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 8 The wholl yeare's rent of the fulling mill. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xvi. 133 My heart went knock, knock,..like a fulling mill. 1876 J. G. Holland Story of Sevenoaks (new ed.) i. 2 Below this two or three saw-mills..and a fulling-mill. 1933 Manch. Guardian 10 June 8/3 There were little fulling mills in villages and towns up and down the country. 1980 Encycl. Chem. Technol. (ed. 3) IX. 855 Conventional press felts are..wet with a soap solution and then fulled or felted on a rotary fulling mill. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 99/2 Because fulling mills depended on waterpower, they often were built outside of cities. < as lemmas |
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