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单词 paper mill
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paper milln.

Brit. /ˈpeɪpə mɪl/, U.S. /ˈpeɪpər ˌmɪl/
Forms: see paper n. and adj. and mill n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: paper n., mill n.1
Etymology: < paper n. + mill n.1 Compare Middle Dutch papiermolen (Dutch papiermolen), Middle High German papiermüle (German Papiermühle), also Middle French moulin à paupier (1355; French moulin à papier).
A mill in which paper is made.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > paper
paper mill1498
paperworks1753
1498 Privy Purse Expenses Henry VII 25 May in S. Bentley Excerpta Historica (1831) 117 For a rewarde yeven at the paper mylne, 16s. 8d.
1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Chartariæ officinæ, paper mylles.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. vii. 35 Thou hast built vp a paper-mill.
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 64 Water gushing out upon the floats of Under-shot Mills; as may be seen in the Stampers of Paper-Mills.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 227 As the Rag-women do for the Paper-Mills.
1767 in Harper's Mag. (1866) Nov. 782/2 The bull cart will go through Boston..to collect rags for the paper mill at Milton.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 370 A very large and capital paper-mill, at Maidstone, in Kent, which is the principal seat of the paper trade in England.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes i. 6 Egria..Bohemia [is] remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.
1909 Proc. National Conservation Congr. (1910) 61 The largest paper mills in the world are on one of our rivers, the Connecticut.
1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 184 This sort of water supply was adequate for the limited production of 100 years ago or more, but would not serve a modern high-speed paper mill.
2000 Paper Technol. (Paper Industry Techn. Assoc.) Feb. 11/3 From its Bolton plant, the company supplies the world's largest paper mills with new and refilled supercalender rolls.

Derivatives

ˈpaper-miller n. a person who works in or owns a paper mill; (also) a company that manufactures paper.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of paper > [noun]
paper maker1574
paper man1618
paper-miller1814
1814 T. L. Peacock Sir Proteus ii. 30 Not satisfied with having raised the price of rags and the wages of the paper-millers, he has actually favoured the world with a poem on the subject.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. vi. 207 No jealous paper-miller?
1995 Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Features section) With the rising recycled content of newsprint and other papers, problems are looming for paper millers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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