单词 | whin-mill |
释义 | > as lemmaswhin-mill whin-mill n. a mill for crushing whin for horse-feed. 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 1793 in Trans. Buchan Field Club (1935) XIV. 76 Carrying wood for the whine mile. 1893 C. A. Mollyson Parish of Fordoun 188 With a plentiful supply of oilcake and other nutritious feeding stuffs there is no place now for the whin-mill. 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways viii. 110 The knocking stones..where the whins were ‘melled’ with a wooden maul, are sometimes to be seen in the farmyard, and there were a few water-driven ‘whin~mills’. < as lemmas |
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