| 单词 | water miller |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈwater miller ˈwater miller n. the owner or operator of a watermill. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller millwardeOE millerOE meal-maker1274 windmillward1314 dusty-poll?1518 mill-yemer1530 water miller1533 windmiller1533 pikeman1551 milleress1680 corn-grinder1841 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Biiiv We water myllers be nothynge in regarde. 1664 Instr. Jury-Men on Comm. Sewers 23 Flood-gates..in a more peculiar manner, belong to the Water-Miller. 1866 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 417/1 All the old water-millers complain that the rainfall, however heavy, does them no permanent good. It just occasions a momentary ‘flush’. 1977 New Scientist 14 Apr. 84/1 Water millers in the 1970s can reasonably claim to be the oppressed and persecuted class among a wide range of water users. 2008 J. Radkau Nature & Power v. 201 The old fisherman and water millers, as well as the brewers and the peasants concerned about the irrigation of their meadows..had a more or less pronounced sense that river beds should be preserved in their existing form. < as lemmas |
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