unmilledadj.

1555 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 86 Item ij webbe unmilled... Item xiiij peces of cloth.

1599 in W. Riding Sessions Rolls (1888) 160 Duas pecias panni lanei..vocant. vnmylned Karsey.

1684 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 82 Ordered that the milned worset stockens be given to the company at six shillings six pence and the unmilned be reduced to five shillings and sixpence the pair.

1714 Tractatus Navigationis: Treaty Navigation & Commerce at Utrecht Nov.–Dec. xx. 29/2 The Importation of..Woollen Manufacture, of what kind soever, Dyed or Undyed, Mill'd or Unmill'd, into Flanders, or the other Provinces, hath been prohibited.

1778 D. Loch Ess. Trade Scotl. II. i. 17 They also make a narrow woolen cloth, which is sold raw from the loom unmilled.

1841 J. Macgregor Commerc. & Financial Legislation Europe & Amer. xix. 167 Woven, milled, unmilled, dyed or undyed woollens, are all with a very few exceptions..Prohibited [in Russia].

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist vii. 416 The disciples of John are warned against mending the old garment of Judaism with a new patch of unmilled cloth.

1934 Sc. Woollens May 2 The type of cloth called hard tartan..is woven tight in the loom and is practically unmilled.

1959 J. G. Cook Handbk. Textile Fibres i. 76 The fibres in these cloths are in a more matted condition than they are in an unmilled cloth.

1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iv. 73 Let the best Chocolata be prepared milled, and unmilled, and there will be a great discrepancy in the innatant, supernatant, and subsiding bodies.

1824 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 11 Dec. 1/3 About 20 quarters of unmilled trefoil seed.

1893 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 11 June 22/3 Germany up to a short time ago had a most discriminating tariff upon milled as compared with unmilled products, which was an almost effectual barrier to the introduction of flour into that country.

1905 Vogue 14 Sept. (advt.) 245/2 A milled soap outlasts an unmilled soap, for it does not shrink, and there is no water in it to make false weight.

1924 W. J. Malden Grassland Farming iii. 29 The seed is often sown broadcast, but where unmilled seed is used, care has to be taken to cover it well.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 10 June 12/2 Unmilled or rough rice, growing or cut, is known as ‘paddy’.

1955 Econ. Rep. of Investig. of Coffee Prices i. 109 Authorized to purchase unmilled coffee direct from growers.

1972 P. R. Beeley Foundry Technol. v. 194 Surface blows and pinholes can also result from pellets of unmilled clay.

1984 P. Matthiessen Indian Country vi. 174 The wholesale export of unmilled logs to other countries..accompanied the scare campaigns that threatened America with a lumber shortage.

2002 W. H. Hagen Ordinary Prussians iv. 229 Barley groats would be cooked, requiring 3/8 bushel of unmilled barley.

1695 L. R. Proposal Mending Coin 9 Next years taking in the Shillings, and the following year the Sixpences unmill'd.

1726 S. M. Leake Nummi Britannici Historia 121 Of the Money called Cutters, on these the Legend goes quite round the Head, which, it does not in another very neat Piece, likewise a Cutter, smaller than the foregoing, but of equal Weight, which some have call'd the Unmill'd Guinea, the King's Head extending to the Rim, without the initial Figures behind the Head.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. xiv. 766 There are two kinds of coin here, of the same denomination, milled and unmilled.

1852 Bankers' Mag. Oct. 331 The edge of the 5 franc pieces, which is unmilled, bears the inscription, Dieu protège la France.

1901 Daily Chron. 4 Nov. 5/1 A limited number were issued to certain collectors with unmilled edges—these coins being called ‘proofs’.

1975 W. L. Sachse Lord Somers vi. 106 He proposed to the Council that all unmilled coin should at one stroke..be assessed at its value by weight.