| 单词 | mill-eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill-eye mill-eye n. †(a) Scottish regional the profits of a mill (obsolete); (b) the opening which conveys meal from the millstones to the meal-bin (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > other parts of mills stooling1558 mill-eye1611 mill-hoop1611 rack-staff1611 breasting1767 hopper-boy1787 paddle1795 cockhead1805 silk1879 looder1881 tollera1884 1611 Brechin Test. II. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 139 To Alexander Carnegie master of the ground for the ferme of the mylne eie and mylne landis of Balnabrich cropt forsaid xvj bollis meill. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 109 Measure the meale therein..just as it commeth from the millne-eye and afore it bee tempsed. 1679 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1961) VI. 167 They will have no les nor the fyft boll of the haill deanrie..and will grant no tacks bot only at that rait and will have the..mylne eyes includit at the same rait. 1755 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) A lippie out of the Boll, as the same after grinding falls from the Mill-eye. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 147 To find the weight of a quantity of stone equal to the mill-eye. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Mill-eye, the orifice through which the flour is discharged from the outer-casing which surrounds a pair of millstones. < as lemmas |
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