| 单词 | pirn-mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspirn-mill pirn-mill n. now rare a mill where bobbins are manufactured. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > bobbins bobbin-mill1857 pirn-mill1915 1915 W. B. Yeats Reveries 13 Another day a sea captain pointed to the smoke from the Pern mill on the quays. 1938 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 140/1 The Pirners' Bridge, so-called either because bobbin-makers crossed it to get birch-timber in the adjacent copse to make their pirns, or because a pirn-mill once stood near it. < as lemmas |
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