| 单词 | breast mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreast mill breast mill n. now historical a mill having a wheel driven by water striking it near the level of the axle (cf. breast wheel n., and breast-shot adj. 2).Contrasted with overshot and undershot mills. 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 1659 in F. B. Dexter Anc. Town Rec.: New Haven (Connecticut) (1917) I. 391 He advised to make a dam ouer ye creeke..& there to sett vp a brest mill. 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. iv. 49 A less quantity of water will turn an overshot-mill..than a breast-mill. 1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 266 Water-mills are of three kinds: undershot mills, breast mills, and overshot mills. 1996 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 83 22 Millers like Hillyer could create a six- to ten-foot fall of water to operate a breast mill, in which the falling stream struck the waterwheel about halfway up its height. < as lemmas |
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