单词 | millstone dresser |
释义 | > as lemmasmillstone dresser millstone dresser n. (a) a person who dresses or prepares millstones; (b) a machine for producing a corrugated surface on a millstone; (c) = mill bill n. at mill n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1854 Sci. Amer. 9 Sept. 412/3 An improved hammer has recently been patented in France, to protect millstone dressers from the injurious effect of the silicous dust. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1443/2 Millstone-dresser, a machine for cutting grooves in the grinding-face of a millstone. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Millstone-dresser, a workman whose business is to dress millstones. 1974 P. W. Blandford Country Craft Tools ii. 43 The ‘millstone dresser’ or ‘mill bill’, was a tool used in an axe-like manner, to cut or reshape the grooves..in the face of the millstone. < as lemmas |
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