| 单词 | pecker mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspecker mill pecker mill n. see sense 3. pecker mill 3. U.S. More fully pecker mill. A rice mill in which the pestle moves in a manner resembling the pecking motion of a bird. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > other mills martinet?c1475 watermill1580 overfall mill1615 breast mill1659 undershot1705 merchant mill1759 pounding mill1785 floating mill1796 steam-mill1801 pecker1802 chip mill1819 1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 121 Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first..so called, from the pestle's striking..in the manner of a wood pecker. 1851 De Bow's Rev. Sept. 307 Rice was then..milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill. 1949 S. C. Murray This Our Land 41 After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’. < as lemmas |
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