| 单词 | mill clapper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill clapper mill clapper n. now historical and rare (a) the clapper of a mill, used to shake corn into the millstones; (b) (figurative) (the tongue of) a talkative person, esp. a woman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > clapper mill clapperc1200 clap?c1225 mill-clack1264 clapper1340 clackc1440 clacket1594 knap1622 clacker1636 c1200 ( Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Bodl. 730) in Eng. Stud. (1981) 62 205/2 Scarioballum i, mulne cleper. 1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd i. i. 4 So great an admirer of the eternal Mill-clapper, Mrs. La Pupsey. 1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest ii. 16 My Heart beats like any Mill-clapper. 1774 D. Garrick Christmas Tale i. i. 2 The river is flowing, The mill-clapper going, But the miller's asleep in his mill. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 125/2 Mill clapper, a Woman's tongue. 1885 Overland Monthly Aug. 137/2 Then both cried out together, so that it was like listening to a mill clapper. < as lemmas |
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