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ˈmill-post
[f. mill n.1 + post n.]
1. The post on which a windmill was formerly often supported. Often in similative phrases, as the type of something thick and massive; hence jocularly, a massive leg.
a1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 70 The Kyng..Makede him a castel of a mulne post. 1378–9Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 588, 2 milnepostes, 4s. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 204 A pooddyng pricke is one, a mylpost is an other. 1592G. Harvey Pierces Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 244 He hath thwittled the milpost of his huge conceit to a pudding-pricke. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 27 A dressing with Dr. Whackum's Plaister, that shall fetch up a Man's Leg to the size of a Mill-post. a1704T. Brown Walk round Lond., Quaker's Meet. (1709) 21 His Mill-post Legs are well adapted for the Load of his Body. 1727Swift Wonder of Wonders Wks. 1755 II. ii. 57 Her legs are as thick as mill⁓posts. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 4 Let dangling Stockings, with becoming Air, Leave to the Sight your brace of Mill-posts bare. 1855Lady Holland Syd. Smith I. vii. 163 Out-of-doors reigned Molly Mills,..with her short red petticoat, legs like mill-posts [etc.]. 1858Hogg Life Shelley II. 247 The daughters of Erin lost no opportunity of exhibiting their millposts to an unprejudiced and observant stranger.
2. U.S. ‘A post upon which the cap of a smock-mill, bearing the sails, turns’ (Cent. Dict. 1890). |