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ˈpaper-ˌmill
A mill in which paper is made.
1498Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VII 25 May in Bentley Excerpta (1831) 117 For a rewarde yeven at the paper mylne, 16s. 8d. 1545Elyot, Chartariæ officinæ, paper mylles. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 41. a 1658 Cleveland Pet. Poem 64 Where Scholars Teeth are their own Paper-mills. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 227 As the Rag-women do for the Paper-Mills. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 370 A very large and capital paper-mill, at Maidstone, in Kent, which is the principal seat of the paper trade in England. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 482 Paper-mills, moved by water-power, were in operation in Tuscany at the commencement of the 14th century.
Hence ˈpaper-miller, a man who works in a paper-mill.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. vi, No jealous paper-miller. |