| 单词 | waulking-mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaulking-mill waulking-mill n. now historical = waulk mill n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mill waulk mill1241 fulling mill1388 tucking-mill1467 tuck-milla1641 fullery1728 tucking-stock1751 walk mill1773 plash-mill1795 waulking-mill1805 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool iii. 165 The person engaged in this employment was called a waulker, or walker, of cloth; and the machine afterwards introduced to answer the same purpose was denominated a waulking-mill. 1886 Northern Notes & Queries Sept. 12 The waulking-mill, formed of ponderous wooden hammers, which beat the cloth in a damp state, till the open-wove cloth is closely felted together. 1969 J. L. Campbell Coll. Waulking Songs 3 There is an account of waulking-mills in a manuscript of 1581. 2002 B. Zarling Bones of Scotl. iii. 21 A waulking mill for treating the wool cloth that the plaids were made out of. < as lemmas |
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