† mill-roundn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.¹, round n.¹, treadmill round.

Etymology: < mill n.¹ + round n.¹, probably as shortened form of treadmill round (see note below).

Obsolete.

A routine, habitual, or everyday activity or occurrence; esp. work that is laborious, enervating, or mundane. Although implied in quot. 1854, the supposed literal sense — the circular path travelled by a mill-horse — appears to be otherwise unattested, and the phrase could in most cases be interpreted as a shortening of the more common, surviving phrase treadmill round.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > circular path used by a mill-horse

walk1735

race1833

mill-round1841

1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xxiii. 237 How the same woman can drill her noble heart and high spirit down to..the mill-round of a senseless luxury, without comfort for its vindication or art for its plea—is an enigma.

1847 R. W. Emerson Friendship in Ess. (new ed.) 1st Ser. 173 O friend,..All things through thee take nobler form,..And is the mill-round of our fate A sun-path in thy worth.

1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xxvii. 207 Pomponius Ego a prosy old chap, who went the horse-in-the-mill round of his stories from sheer want of originality and inability to move from home in search of novelty.]

1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. v. 57 ‘Poor Methuselah,’ said he; ‘nine hundred and sixty-six years he had of it, hadn't he? How sick he must have been of the eternal millround—seed-time and harvest, summer and winter coming back near a thousand times.’

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 377 Melancholics left to their own thoughts are assuredly beating the mill-round of their disorder deeper and deeper.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	mill-round
释义	† mill-roundn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.¹, round n.¹, treadmill round. Etymology: < mill n.¹ + round n.¹, probably as shortened form of treadmill round (see note below). Obsolete. A routine, habitual, or everyday activity or occurrence; esp. work that is laborious, enervating, or mundane. Although implied in quot. 1854, the supposed literal sense — the circular path travelled by a mill-horse — appears to be otherwise unattested, and the phrase could in most cases be interpreted as a shortening of the more common, surviving phrase treadmill round. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > circular path used by a mill-horse walk1735 race1833 mill-round1841 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xxiii. 237 How the same woman can drill her noble heart and high spirit down to..the mill-round of a senseless luxury, without comfort for its vindication or art for its plea—is an enigma. 1847 R. W. Emerson Friendship in Ess. (new ed.) 1st Ser. 173 O friend,..All things through thee take nobler form,..And is the mill-round of our fate A sun-path in thy worth. 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xxvii. 207 Pomponius Ego a prosy old chap, who went the horse-in-the-mill round of his stories from sheer want of originality and inability to move from home in search of novelty.] 1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. v. 57 ‘Poor Methuselah,’ said he; ‘nine hundred and sixty-six years he had of it, hadn't he? How sick he must have been of the eternal millround—seed-time and harvest, summer and winter coming back near a thousand times.’ 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 377 Melancholics left to their own thoughts are assuredly beating the mill-round of their disorder deeper and deeper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1841
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