单词 | tucking-mill |
释义 | tucking-milln. See quot. 1888. (A West of England term.) 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 1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 587/1 A Water Mille 11 Tokyng Milles and Medowes, Pastures and Wodes. 1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 11 §4 No..Weaver..shall..kepe or have any Tucking Mill. 1617 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 176 I made him a new lease of thowld Tucking myll. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 331 Tucking mill, fulling mill. 1811 J. Taylor Remarks Present State Devon in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) p. xxiv The traces of ruined tucking mills, as they were provincially called,..denote the former extent of the manufactory. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Tucking-mill,..fuller's stocks, or beaters for milling cloth. The term is also applied to the building and machinery as a whole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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