| 单词 | meal-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeal-maker meal-maker n. a miller; also in extended use.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller millwardeOE millerOE meal-maker1274 windmillward1314 dusty-poll?1518 mill-yemer1530 water miller1533 windmiller1533 pikeman1551 milleress1680 corn-grinder1841 1274 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 58 (MED) Adam le Melemakere. a1400 in L. T. Smith York Plays (1885) Introd. p. xl Mele-makers. 1419 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 127 (MED) Thomas Gybbe, melemaker. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 56 The quantities of grain..sold from this parish, at Eyemouth, Berwick, and to meal~makers..are very considerable. 1941 Mod. Lang. Notes 56 539 Ǫkuþor, whose hammer Mjǫllnir (meal-maker, or miller!) bruised many a skull. < as lemmas |
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