| 单词 | mill-clack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmill-clack mill-clack n. †(a) = clack n. 3; (also figurative) a noisy or talkative person (obsolete); (b) Heraldry a representation of a mill-clack. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of implements > [noun] > mill-clack mill-clack1264 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > clapper mill clapperc1200 clap?c1225 mill-clack1264 clapper1340 clackc1440 clacket1594 knap1622 clacker1636 1264–5 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 54 (MED) Milcloc. 1638 J. Ford Fancies iii. 39 His tongue troules like a Mill-clack. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd ii. ii. 19 I was a Babbler, a Mill-clack, and every foot a Hound. 1720 W. R. Chetwood Stock-jobbers ii. i. 16 Hold thy Tongue, thou Mill-Clack, thou Bell-Clapper, thou Water-Fall. 1866 Atlantic Monthly July 99 On his departure, the suppressed tongues went like mill-clacks. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 232/2 (caption) Azure, a mill-clack fesswise, Or. < as lemmas |
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