| 单词 | floating mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfloating mill floating mill n. U.S. a mill so constructed as to float in a river and be worked by the current; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > other mills martinet?c1475 watermill1580 overfall mill1615 breast mill1659 undershot1705 merchant mill1759 pounding mill1785 floating mill1796 steam-mill1801 pecker1802 chip mill1819 1796 A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews A. Ellicott (1908) 138 These floating mills are erected upon two, or more, large canoes or boats, and anchored out in a strong current. 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 52 It has a post office, and a floating mill anchored abreast of the town. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 145 Floating Mill Wheel, a water wheel, having its bearings in a boat moored in the stream of a rapidly flowing river, which turns the wheel and performs work for which it is suitable. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 250 Some of the first water-power mills were ‘floating mills’. These were built on two large dugout canoes. An undershot wheel was placed between them. < as lemmas |
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