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单词 corn-mill
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corn-milln.

Forms: Also 1500s -miln.
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcorn-mill.
1. A mill for grinding corn or grain; a flour-mill.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill
millOE
oat mill1482
corn-mill1523
grist-mill1602
barley-mill1797
flouring-mill1797
moulin1837
corn-grinder1841
grain-mill1867
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ix. f. 9v There be many maner of mylnes as cornemylnes, wyndmylnes, horsemylnes.
1625 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. A water corn mill.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 226 Man..can make corn mills..that grind the corn, he must else have pounded in a mortar.
1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 4 Where stood the corn-mill of the parish till the year 1703.
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2. A machine for roughly grinding the cobs of Indian corn for stock-feeding purposes. U.S.

Derivatives

ˈcorn-miller n. a miller.
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1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 648/2 J. Shepard..corn-miller.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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