| 单词 | mill timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill timber mill timber n. (a) timber suitable for or treated in a sawmill; (b) a thick piece of timber used as a prop in a mill. ΚΠ 1575 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1994) (modernized text) IX. 98 To my wife all my mill timber that is without and my mill tools. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) vii. 43 The Chess-nut affords the best Stakes and Poles for Palisades:..Also for Mill-timber and Water-works. 1732 True State Case between Brit. Northern-colonies & Sugar Islands Amer. 17 The French now furnish themselves with Cooperage and Mill-Timber..from their own Islands. 1804 Naval Chron. 11 156 Laden with mahogany and mill-timber. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 26 My theebanes war then like milltimmers. 1934 T. A. Harper Windy Island 193 Open up immense bodies of mill timber. 2000 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 27 June The wonderful beetling mill timbers which hold up the roof..[are] from Dunadry Bleach Works. < as lemmas |
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