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ˈwater-mill
1. A corn-mill whose machinery is driven by water. Also attrib.
c1425St. Christina vii. in Anglia VIII. 122 She wente streight vprighte on þe watir-mylne whele. 1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 529/1 A water Milne..with the ponde of the same Milne. 1484Paston Lett. III. 311 Tweyn water melles, wher off iche was letyn ffor x. marke be yer. 1585Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VII. 402/2 Pd to Hille for xix Lodes cariedge of watermill gravell into the marshe xiis viiid. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 216/1 Tympanum,..the water mill wheele that taketh and deliuereth water in turning. 1635Bp. J. Williams Articles Enq. Linc. C 3, Whether have you in your parish any water-mills,..which have been suffered to grinde or go upon the sabbath-day in prayer-time. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. i, The sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water-mill. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 167 The north of Germany is deficient both in coals and water mills. 1873B. Stewart Conserv. Energy ii. 26 Let us compare together a watermill driven by a head of water, and a windmill driven by the wind.
2. A water-wheel or a machine driven by a water-wheel.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Martinet, a water mill causing to rise the great hammer in the forge. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 9 The beere of Torge is much esteemed through all Misen, whereof they sell such quantity abroad, as ten water-mils besides wind-mils, scarcely serve the towne for this purpose. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 233 Large water-mills are erected for spinning silk, wool, and thread.
So water-miller, the owner or manager of a water-mill.
a1530J. Heywood Weather (Brandl) 443 Here entreth the water myller. Ibid. 446 We water myllers be nothynge in regarde. 1664Instr. Jury-Men Spalding 23 Flood-gates..in a more peculiar manner, belong to the Water-Miller. 1909E. Daniels in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VI. xx. 714 Arnold, a water-miller in the neighbourhood of Züllichau in the Neumark. 1977New Scientist 14 Apr. 84/1 Water millers in the 1970s can reasonably claim to be the oppressed and persecuted class among a wide range of water users. |