单词 | tuck-mill |
释义 | tuck-milln. Now rare. = tucking-mill n. (Chiefly West of England.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mill waulk mill1241 fulling mill1388 tucking-mill1467 tuck-milla1641 fullery1728 tucking-stock1751 walk mill1773 plash-mill1795 waulking-mill1805 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 4 The multitude of Tuckmills, and fullinge mills which heere abound. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 108 Where-ever there is a Conveniency of a River for Tuck-mills near the Wooll-countries, they may be made. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 35 To this mill is since added..two tuck-mills. 1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 324 All Manufactures made of Wool, which are milled in a Tuck Mill, or other machine, whether twilled or plain, as Coatings, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Druggets, German Serges, Ratteens, and such like. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 9 Sept. 6/2 A walk..past the scutching-mills for flax and the old tuck-mill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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