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单词 smock-mill
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smock-milln.

Etymology: < smock n., with reference to the shape.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsmock-mill.
A windmill having a revolving top.
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post mill1755
post-windmill1755
smock windmill1795
smock-mill1802
stob-mill1882
aeromotor1892
1802 Hull Advertiser 18 Dec. 3/2.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 124 The other method of bringing the windshaft and sails into..position..is by what is called the smock-mill.
1838– in dialect glossaries and technical dictionaries.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 599 The post mill was succeeded by the tower, smock, or frock mill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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