单词 | mill-head |
释义 | > as lemmasmill-head mill-head n. (a) a reservoir of pent-up water which, when released, turns a watermill; (b) the part of a horse-mill from which the driving gear is suspended. ΚΠ 1450 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) II. 85 His part of the brygyn of the myl hed. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved viii. 43 Such Mills..as are kept up, or dammed so high, as that they boggyfie all the Lands that lye under their Mill-head. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xviii The mill-head is erected on a floor about seven or eight feet above the ground floor. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 339 I thought thee was going to jump into the mill-head! mill-head ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > nail > round-headed round-headed1559 mill-head1790 mill-headed1805 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 153 The insertion of a small mill-head key, on a square pin fitted to receive it. < as lemmas |
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