| 单词 | mill bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill bill mill bill n. a steel adze fixed in a wooden handle, used for dressing and cracking millstones; this adze alone (rare). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > adze > [noun] > for dressing stone > for dressing millstones mill-pickc1357 mill bill1582 pike1756 millstone pick1853 millstone dresser1854 1582–3 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 141 Syx mylbyls and two boxing chissels. 1631 J. Winthrop Let. 28 Mar. in Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. App. 381 Bring..mill stones..with bracings ready cast, and rings, and mill-bills. 1897 in Sheffield Trade List 27 Mill Picks and Bills to order. 1999 T. Quinn & P. Felix Last of Line 105 The stones are cut or dressed in two ways: the main furrows Mildred leaves to the millwright; the tiny chisel cuts, or stitching, she makes herself (using what's known as a ‘mill bill’) in the flat areas between the larger grooves. < as lemmas |
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