英语词汇“to ring the mill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. to ring the mill: to allow the first grain that is ground to fall round the millstone.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > grind corn [verb (intransitive)] > other grinding practices

to ring the mill1789

1789 Philorth Baron Court Bk. (MS V) 86 in Sc. National Dict. at Ring [He] thought it proper to take his sack of shillen off the Crubs till such time as the Tails were ready to ring the mill.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) To fill these [crevices round the mill-stone] with the first grain that is ground, after the stones are picked, is called ringing the mill.

1814 Abstract conc. Mill Inveramsy in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (1825) (at cited word) The tenants ringing the mill to themselves, and carrying away the same ring with them.

2004 J. Langdon Mills in Medieval Econ. vi. 245 There were also more complicated methods for pirating grain, such as the ruse known in more modern times as ‘ringing the mill’. This was the practice of creating gaps in the millstone wooden casing in order to let grain or meal drop down into the hidden cranny, where ir could be retrieved by the miller at the end of the day.

单词	to ring the mill
释义	> as lemmas to ring the mill P1. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. to ring the mill: to allow the first grain that is ground to fall round the millstone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > grind corn [verb (intransitive)] > other grinding practices to ring the mill1789 1789 Philorth Baron Court Bk. (MS V) 86 in Sc. National Dict. at Ring [He] thought it proper to take his sack of shillen off the Crubs till such time as the Tails were ready to ring the mill. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) To fill these [crevices round the mill-stone] with the first grain that is ground, after the stones are picked, is called ringing the mill. 1814 Abstract conc. Mill Inveramsy in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (1825) (at cited word) The tenants ringing the mill to themselves, and carrying away the same ring with them. 2004 J. Langdon Mills in Medieval Econ. vi. 245 There were also more complicated methods for pirating grain, such as the ruse known in more modern times as ‘ringing the mill’. This was the practice of creating gaps in the millstone wooden casing in order to let grain or meal drop down into the hidden cranny, where ir could be retrieved by the miller at the end of the day. extracted from ringv.² < as lemmas
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