| 单词 | tide-mill | 
| 释义 | tide-milln. 1.  A mill driven by the flux and reflux of the tide acting on a waterwheel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > 			[noun]		 > corn-mill > other types of mill water corn mill1327 watermill1371 quern mill1590 water grist mill1636 tide-mill1640 parish mill1676 whin-mill1793 roller mill1828 saddle quern1867 walk-around1869 kibbler1882 1640    in  Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. 		(1863)	 V. 169/2  				Captane Traske hath leave to sett up a tyde myll upon the North River. 1755    Mass. Prov. Acts 		(1878)	 III. 810  				Tide-mills that have or shall be set up on across the mouth of rivers. 1794    W. Marshall in  Rural Econ. W. Eng. 		(1796)	 II. 63  				A low bank, thrown up across these marshlands,..gives effect to a tide mill, situated near one end of it. 1825    ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 94  				Tide-mills,..are such as employ for their first mover the flowing and ebbing tide, either in the sea or a river. 1870    E. L. Garbett in  Eng. Mech. 11 Mar. 624/3  				Corn has been ground by tide-mills.  2.  ‘A mill for clearing lands from tide-water’ (Webster, 1828). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). <  | 
	
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