gig-milln.
a. A machine for raising a nap on cloth by the use of teazles or wire-cards.
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gig-mill1551
gigging-mill1789
raising gig1804
teasel1835
gig1842
gigging-machine1875
nappera1884
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 22 Milles called Gigge Milles, for the perchinge and burlinge of Clothe.
1556 Lease in Jeanes Catal. Berkeley Chart. (1892) 215 His two mylles under one roffe that is to say a corne myll and a giggmyll.
1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Gig-mills, were Mills used in the Fulling of cloth, which with Iron cards are prohibited by the Statutes of 3 Ed. 6 2, 5 Ed. 6 22.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 34 A gigg mill for glossing, smoothing, and laying the grain.
1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 6/1 He [a cloth-dresser] having been employed in Ireland on a species of machinery called gig mills.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 342/2 The teazles are arrayed in frames..The whole machine is called a gig-mill.
b. A building in which such machines are used.
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gig-mill1849
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 39 A gig-mill was burnt to the ground.
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