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ˈtoll-dish
[toll n.1 2 a (b).]
A dish or bowl of stated dimensions for measuring the toll of grain at a mill; a multure-dish.
a1550Mery Jest of Mylner of Abyngton 50 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 102 The mylner was so trewe and fele, Of each mannes corne wolde he steale More than his toledish by a deale. c1585Faire Em i. 168 You are too fyne to be a Millers daughter: For if you should but stoope to take vp the tole dish You will haue the crampe in your finger At least ten weekes after. 1623Fletcher & Rowley Maid in Mill iii. ii, A Lord, a Miller? Take your toal-dish with ye. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 505 Corn Mills pay Tithes in Kind as Mills, which is the tenth Toll-dish. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Farnham, The toll-dish here was once reckoned worth 200 l. a year. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xi, The thieves..crying to their comrade, ‘Miller! beware thy toll-dish’. |