| 单词 | mill ring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill ring mill ring n. (a) the meal scattered around a millstone, regarded as a perquisite of the miller; †(b) the dust of a mill (obsolete rare); (c) the space in a mill between the runner and the frame surrounding it.Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 217 It was from observing, that the tacksman of a mill, who was a horse-dealer, gave all his mill ring (i.e. the corn which fills the mill-stones when newly picked) along with potatoes, that I learned to mix the great or coarse bran with that valuable root. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Mill-ring, the dust of a miln. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Mill-ring, the open space in a mill between the runner and the wooden frame surrounding it. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 136 A workman, in making an excavation near the mill-ring, came on a large, flat stone, aneath which were the remains of a clay urn. 1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 11 The former mill ring, for example, now forms an impressive circular living room in the largest dwelling. < as lemmas |
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