单词 | mill town |
释义 | > as lemmasmill town mill town n. [attested earlier in place names: see quots.] (a) Scottish a set of buildings or hamlet adjoining a mill; (b) a town characterized by the presence of a manufacturing mill or mills. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > town with other industry or occupation mill town1491 mining townc1827 lumber town1880 cow-town1885 company town1907 lOE List of Sureties, Peterborough in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 76 Þonne is þer borhhand..Ætlebrant æt Pilesgeate, & Cnut & Styrcyr on Uptune, & Boia on Mylatune [sc. Milton Park, Northants.]. c1240 in J. Dowden Chartulary Abbey of Lindores (1903) 42 In uilla que dicitur Mylnetoun. a1300 in C. Innes Registrum de Dunfermelyn (1842) 115 Ardlather que nunc vocatur milnetun.] 1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 194/2 Þe franktennement of þe landis..& þe myltoune of Concragy. 1701 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) That the tennent..[of] the new miln..have liberty to cast doviots for the bigging of the said milntoun. c1800 Knight & Shepherd's Daughter in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1956) II. 471 As they rade bye yon bonny mill-town. 1847 D. P. Thompson Locke Amsden x. 199 [The paper] came into town all damp from the press of Mill-Town Emporium. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxi. 155 He arrived out of breath in a typical little mill town. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin v. 43 It passed the door of the old milltoun, a farmstead now with steep, hill-hung fields. 2000 Guardian 6 May 6/4 (headline) Trouble at mill towns as Labour loses in Lancashire. < as lemmas |
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