单词 | water blast |
释义 | > as lemmaswater blast i. Designating a machine worked or powered by water, a part of a machine in which water is heated, or a structure or device for drawing or circulating water, as water bellows, water blast, water box, water chamber, water corn mill, water drum, water feed, †water shovel, water trap. 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 1327 Ministers' Accts. (P.R.O.: 1247/12) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Water-shovele In ijc Schotbord pro waterscheffles aquatici molendini. 1384 Foreign Accts. (P.R.O.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Water Reddit compotum de..j Mukehoke, j sherhoke, j cacabo..j Waterwyndas. 1580 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 32 All my interest in the water corne mylne and farmehold in Kirklawe. 1725 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 178 A wattercorn Milln called Accorinton Milln. 1763 in S. Smiles Engineers (1861) I. 359 (note) At the mouth of the cavern is erected a water-bellows. 1821 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 2 183 Placing the water-boxes upon the roller-beam. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 47 The pipe, 1, connects the air-chamber, a, with the inner water-chamber, a. 1833 T. Sopwith Mining Distr. Alston Moor 131 The water blast..consists of a wooden pipe placed in a shaft, and down which a stream of water is kept running, while a quantity of fresh air is carried with it. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 468/1 It is from the drying up of the fluid in water-traps that uninhabited houses are so frequently offensive. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 388/1 The draught is sometimes kept up by..a water-drum, an apparatus which sucks in air by means of the friction of a jet of water. 1914 Chambers's Jrnl. May 334/2 The..lamp..works automatically, the water-feed to the carbide being drop by drop. 1951 D. Mathew Age Charles I xii. 196 Yeomen are found operating grist-mills, water corn-mills and fulling mills. 1993 Cottage Life Mar. 39/3 The piston pump is simple to prime... You put water in the head (also known as the water box) and it should pick up its prime. 2003 N. Brownlee Everything you didn't need to know about UK 122 The ‘airstream’ blowpipe..uses a water trap to prevent water displacement. < as lemmas |
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