snuff-milln.
1. Scottish. A snuff-box, snuff-mull.
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milla1689
snuff-box1688
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joint1701
sneezer1725
mull?1762
snuff-mull1808
tabatière1823
taddy-box1907
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 12 Right well mounted of their ear:..With Durk, and Snap work, and Snuff-mill.
1707 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 18 For 3 snuf milnes £4.
1715 Mar's Lament in Roxburghe Ballads (1888) VI. 621 Each man unto the spoyl he gat, some got plaids and snuff-mills in their pack.
1835 D. Webster Orig. Sc. Rhymes 27 His snuff mill was the horn o' ram.
2. A mill, or machine, for grinding tobacco into snuff.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > machine for making snuff
snuff-mill1758
1758 in Jedburgh Gaz. (1906) 29 Sept. 3 Snuff and Waulk Miln, [rent] £7:0:0.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1255 The sides of the snuff-mill have sharp ridges from the top to near the bottom.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2232/1 The snuff-mills of Holland are on a very large scale, and are impelled by wind.
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