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单词 millward
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millwardn.

Brit. /ˈmɪl(w)əd/, U.S. /ˈmɪl(w)ərd/
Forms:

α. Old English mylenwyrd, Middle English mylnard; Scottish pre-1700 milnewart, pre-1700 milnvard, pre-1700 milnward.

β. Old English myleweard, late Old English mylewerd, Middle English melewarde, Middle English milewarde, Middle English millewarde, Middle English milwarde, Middle English muleward, Middle English mulleward, Middle English mulwarde, Middle English mylewarde, Middle English mylward; English regional 1800s– mallard, 1800s– millard, 1800s– millerd, 1800s– millord, 1800s– millud; Scottish pre-1700 millward, pre-1700 miluart, pre-1700 milvar, pre-1700 milvert, pre-1700 milvort, pre-1700 milwar, pre-1700 milward, pre-1700 milware, pre-1700 milwart, pre-1700 myleart, pre-1700 myllart, pre-1700 mylvart, pre-1700 mylward, pre-1700 1700s–1800s millart, 1700s milvard, 1700s 1900s– millard, 1800s mullert, 1800s– millert, 1900s– mullart.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.1, ward n.1
Etymology: < mill n.1 + ward n.1English regional and Scots forms with absence of -w- could alternatively be taken as showing examples of miller n.1 with excrescent final consonant.
Now chiefly British regional.
Originally: the keeper of a (manorial) mill. In later use: a miller.
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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
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 310 Molendarius, myleweard.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 130 Molendinarius uel molinarius, mylenwyrd.
lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 455 And gif he smeawyrhtan hæfð, ðam he sceal to tolan fylstan: mylewerde, sutere, leodgotan & oðran wyrhtan.
a1325 Pilate (Corpus Cambr.) 4 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 698 (MED) Bi a milewardes wyf he lay.
1380 Poll Tax in T. Rogers Oxf. City Documents (1891) 11 De Willelmole Mulleward et Johanna vxore eius xviij.d.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 319 He gat a sone on oon Pila a milwardes douȝter þat heet Atus.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) iii. xvii. 144 Millewardes also that filleth here resoun with oute clepinge of resoun.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 6437 (MED) A mulwardes doghter ho was.
1598 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 175 Alexander Marschall, mylvart at the nather mylne of this burght.
1650 Croy Parish Session Min. Bk. 15 Sept. (MS) Ye minister having askit ye elderie..giffe yai did try any privat hanting betwixt ye said William Dolas and his Milwars wyffe yai..Declairis yat yai could not [etc.].
1788 J. Skinner Christmass Bawing in Caledonian Mag. Sept. 503 The Millart lad, a souple fallow, Ran's he had been red wood.
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xiii I've brushed till my arms ache, but my things is still like a millard's.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 62 Corn miller... Millard.
1912 D. McKie Fables frae French 72 Anither ane a Millert was by trade, A fat an' burly carle.
1946 J. C. Milne Orra Loon 5 The mullart o' Byth was in unca gweed fettle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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