tide-milln.
1. A mill driven by the flux and reflux of the tide acting on a waterwheel.
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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).
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