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单词 hand mill
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hand milln.

Brit. /ˈhan(d) mɪl/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d) ˌmɪl/
Forms: see hand n. and mill n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., mill n.1
Etymology: < hand n. + mill n.1 Compare Middle Dutch hantmolene (Dutch handmolen), Middle Low German hantmȫle, German Handmühle (early 16th cent. as hanmole); also post-classical Latin (in British sources) mola ad manum (1301), mola manualis (c1200, 1325).
1. A hand-operated device for grinding corn, etc., consisting of two stones, the upper of which is rotated or rubbed on the lower; a quern.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > hand-mill
quernOE
hand mill1523
quern mill1590
kibbling-mill1826
pot-quern1851
mano1901
c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 59/2 Gif the myl beis brokin..the millar..sal mak convencioun wyth the millaris of the corn and the multer. And rycht sua of the hand milstanes [L. de molis manualibus].]
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. C/2 Thynges of householde..as handmylles, ouyns to bake in, and suche other thynges necessary.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 10 Neyther place nor aucthoritie wyll serue me to builde eyther a water mill or a wind mill, and a querne, or a hand mill, dooth but a litle good.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 119 But then it must be a Prudent King, such as is able to Grinde with a Hand-Mill.
1671 Moueables 28 Jan. in J. H. Pleasants Arch. Maryland (1937) LIV. 572 One hand Mill and two piackares One Plough and Two Chaines.
1724 D. Defoe Life & Adventures Robinson Crusoe (ed. 2) ii. 199 He was dexterous at making Wheels and Hand-Mills to grind Corn.
1792 A. Young Trav. France 536 Feudal tyranny in Bretagne, armed with the judicial power, has not blushed even in these times at breaking hand-mills.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xix. 233 It is said that a man and a boy can grind by a hand mill a bushel of wheat in an hour.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 43 A quern-stone, or upper half of an ancient hand-mill.
1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. July 656 No hand-mills were to be allowed, and the burgesses had still to bring their corn to be ground at the abbot's mill.
1940 J. E. Wright & D. S. Corbett Pioneer Life vii. 75 The hand mill consisted of two circular stones, one laid on top of the other.
2001 H. Khuhro in M. Shamsie Leaving Home 104 Waking up to the sound of churning butter in clay pots and the grinding of wheat in stone hand mills.
2. A simple hand-operated machine or apparatus for grinding or reducing a solid substance other than corn to powder, pulp, etc.; (also) a similar machine or apparatus for squeezing the liquid from fruits, plants, etc., by grinding or crushing. Cf. mill n.1 3a, 3b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding
mullet1398
mill1560
rammer1630
pulverizer1635
crackera1640
hand mill1656
grinder1688
mortar1733
pestle mill1773
pulverer1778
bruiser1809
smasher1822
muller1823
pug mill1824
crusher1825
pounding machine1839
pug1859
disintegrator1874
micronizer1934
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Quern A handmill; as a Pepper Quern, a Mill to grinde Pepper.
1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 1052 This dust is put into a Hand-mill with Quick-silver, and being continually turned upon that, and the Metals, an Amalgama is made of them.
1731 T. Dale tr. N. Regnault Philos. Conversat. I. vii. 77 The surprizing Effects which the Curious take Pleasure to observe in divers Leavers, in the Roman Ballance,..the Roll of an Hand-Mill, [etc.].
1798 New Jamaica Mag. Aug. 77 A good hand-mill..may pass thirty-three barrels of cherries in an hour.
1831 J. Nicholson Operative Mechanic & Brit. Machinist I. 160 (heading) Hand-mills. Are most commonly used in grinding coffee and spices.
1857 Cultivator Nov. 337/1 (caption) Hand-mill for crushing Chinese sugar cane.
1910 Country Gentleman 10 Feb. 133/3 By using hand mills we are unable to get more than one-half of the juice..per bushel of apples.
1976 W. Shurtleff & A. Aoyagi Bk. Miso viii. 193/2 Grind beans in a hand mill or pound in a mortar.
2003 T. Farley Challenger 68 Gram ground coffee beans in a hand mill and poured them into the old tin coffeepot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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