watermilln.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtəmɪl/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərˌmɪl/,

/ˈwɑdərˌmɪl/

Forms: see water n. and mill n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., mill n.¹

Etymology: < water n. + mill n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch watermoolle, watermōlen, watermuelen (Dutch watermolen), German Wassermühle (beginning of the 15th cent.). Compare also post-classical Latin aquaemola, aquimola (9th cent.), aquaemolina (10th cent.), molendina aquatica (14th cent. in British sources), Old French moulin d'awe, molin d'aighe, etc. (1285), moulin à yauwe (1310), Middle French moulin a l'eau (1530), Old Occitan moli d'aiga (1340).

1. A mill, esp. a corn mill, whose machinery is driven by water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > other types of mill

water corn mill1327

watermill1371

quern mill1590

water grist mill1636

tide-mill1640

parish mill1676

whin-mill1793

roller mill1828

saddle quern1867

walk-around1869

kibbler1882

1371 in R. Sillem Rec. Sessions Peace Lincs. (1936) 182 (MED) Dicunt quod Robertus..in le Waltermilne [perh. read Watermilne] Noue Lafford..furtiue furatus fuit nouem vlnas panni lanei de Iohanne de Saxtum.

1484 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 623 Tweyn water melles, wher-off jche was letyn for x marke be yere.

1635 Abp. J. Williams Articles Enq. Linc. sig. C3 Whether have you in your parish any water-mills,..which have been suffered to grinde or go upon the sabbath-day in prayer time.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved Ded. to Cromwell sig. b2^v Watermills, which destroy abundance of gallant Land, by pounding up the water..even to the very top of the ground.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 16 The Sound of his Voice pierced my Ears like that of a Water-Mill.

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 167 The north of Germany is deficient both in coals and water mills.

1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy ii. 26 Let us compare together a watermill driven by a head of water, and a windmill driven by the wind.

1927 T. S. Eliot Journey of Magi A temperate valley..With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 240 The corn of Britain continued to be stone-ground in windmills or watermills until the first rollermill in the country was opened in Glasgow in 1872.

2002 B. Risebero Story Western Archit. (ed. 3) 42 The northern population..were to introduce into their agriculture the marling of top-soil, water-mills for grinding, the harrow and the flail.

2. More generally: machinery driven by a waterwheel; (also) the waterwheel itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > other mills

martinet?c1475

watermill1580

overfall mill1615

breast mill1659

undershot1705

merchant mill1759

pounding mill1785

floating mill1796

steam-mill1801

pecker1802

chip mill1819

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Martinet, a water mill causing to rise the great hammer in the forge.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 9 The beere of Torge is much esteemed through all Misen, whereof they sell such quantity abroad, as ten water-mils besides wind-mils, scarcely serve the towne for this purpose.

1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xv. 337 Neither wants it great Sugar-works, which have Water-mills and Horse-mills.

1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Bleach [Coarse linens] are..beaten by wooden hammers work'd by a water-mill.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 233 Large water-mills are erected for spinning silk, wool, and thread.

1862 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 17 July This rock is being taken to mills on the Carson for reduction... Were there water mills convenient to Cedar Hill, the whole mountain would pay for running through them.

1898 Foundry June 171/1 This foundry is located near our works and we cart the cinder and run it through our water mill.

1925 W. Bowden Industr. Soc. in Eng. ii. 87 Within five miles of Darlington in the county of Durham there were in 1789 three water mills for spinning hemp and flax as well as wool.

1995 Holiday Which? Mar. 78/2 Half-timbered houses from all over Alsace have been reconstructed here to form a kind of working village, with a watermill powering a timberyard to help in further construction.

†3. slang. The female genitals; the vulva or vagina. Also: a woman as a source of sexual gratification. Obsolete.Usually as part of an extended metaphor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]

cuntc1230

quivera1382

chosec1386

privy chosea1387

quoniamc1405

naturec1470

shell1497

box1541

water gate1541

mouth1568

quiver case1568

water gap1586

cunnya1593

medlar1597

mark1598

buggle-boo1600

malkin1602

lap1607

skin coat1611

quim1613

nest1614

watermilla1626

bum1655

merkin1656

twat1656

notch1659

commodity1660

modicum1660

crinkum-crankum1670

honeypot1673

honour1688

muff1699

pussy1699

puss1707

fud1771

jock1790

cock?1833

fanny?1835

vaginac1890

rug1893

money-maker1896

Berkeley1899

Berkeley Hunt1899

twitchet1899

mingea1903

snatch1904

beaver1927

coozie1934

Sir Berkeley1937

pocketbook1942

pranny1949

zatch1950

cooch1955

bearded clam1962

noonie1966

chuff1967

coozea1968

carpet1981

pum-pum1983

front bum1985

coochie1986

punani1987

front bottom1991

va-jay-jay2000

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner

cunnya1593

watermilla1626

piece of ass1816

fuck1870

gash1914

assa1916

mama1916

bim1922

pigmeat1926

nookie1928

screw1937

poontang1945

poon1947

trim1955

a bit (or piece) of crumpet1959

leg1968

a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbb2/1^v The Lord wants a water-Mill, and means to grind with her.

1656 Choyce Drollery 51 I love thee for thy lusty thighes, For tressels thou maist boast, Sweet-heart thou hast a water-mill, And these are the mill-posts.

?1695 Crafty Country Woman (single sheet) (verso) I will have my Tole, now you have ground your fill; You might have ground at home, in your Wive's Water-mill.

1764 J. Wilkes Ess. on Woman 23 The Water-mills against the Wind-mills for ever; and a fart for the a posteriori men.

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Water-mill, the monosyllable [i.e. cunt].

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1585 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries (1920) 12th Ser. 7 402/2 P^d to Hille for xix Lodes cariedge of watermill gravell into the marshe xii^s viii^d.

1896 Irish Times 7 May 8 [A] strip of land..which..formed the embankment of a water mill race.

2013 Eastern Econ. Jrnl. Winter 18 Manufacturing..was freed from the locational constraints imposed by watermill power to locate in urban areas offering abundant inputs.

C2.

watermill wheel n. a water-powered wheel used to drive a mill or other machinery (cf. mill-wheel n. 1, waterwheel n. 1).

ΚΠ

c1450 (?c1425) St. Christina in Anglia (1885) 8 122 She wente streight vprighte on þe watir-mylne-whele.

1747 Scots Mag. Feb. 91/1 They poured more water into..[the hole], and that bubbled as before, and made a great noise like a water mill wheel.

1840 Liverpool Standard 9 June The common paddle-wheel, or rather water-mill wheel which has hitherto been the instrument of propulsion for our steam vessels..is beset with certain disadvantages.

1928 Irish Times 18 July 7 Victor Davies..and his father fell on to a water mill wheel and were carried thirty yards under the road into the mill race.

2011 A. Sebba That Woman xiii. 270 A mural..showing a stone watermill wheel entwined with the words ‘I'm not the miller's daughter but I've been through the mill’.

Derivatives

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. Biii^v 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.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	watermill
释义	watermilln. Brit. /ˈwɔːtəmɪl/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌmɪl/, /ˈwɑdərˌmɪl/ Forms: see water n. and mill n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., mill n.¹ Etymology: < water n. + mill n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch watermoolle, watermōlen, watermuelen (Dutch watermolen), German Wassermühle (beginning of the 15th cent.). Compare also post-classical Latin aquaemola, aquimola (9th cent.), aquaemolina (10th cent.), molendina aquatica (14th cent. in British sources), Old French moulin d'awe, molin d'aighe, etc. (1285), moulin à yauwe (1310), Middle French moulin a l'eau (1530), Old Occitan moli d'aiga (1340). 1. A mill, esp. a corn mill, whose machinery is driven by water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > other types of mill water corn mill1327 watermill1371 quern mill1590 water grist mill1636 tide-mill1640 parish mill1676 whin-mill1793 roller mill1828 saddle quern1867 walk-around1869 kibbler1882 1371 in R. Sillem Rec. Sessions Peace Lincs. (1936) 182 (MED) Dicunt quod Robertus..in le Waltermilne [perh. read Watermilne] Noue Lafford..furtiue furatus fuit nouem vlnas panni lanei de Iohanne de Saxtum. 1484 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 623 Tweyn water melles, wher-off jche was letyn for x marke be yere. 1635 Abp. J. Williams Articles Enq. Linc. sig. C3 Whether have you in your parish any water-mills,..which have been suffered to grinde or go upon the sabbath-day in prayer time. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved Ded. to Cromwell sig. b2^v Watermills, which destroy abundance of gallant Land, by pounding up the water..even to the very top of the ground. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 16 The Sound of his Voice pierced my Ears like that of a Water-Mill. 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 167 The north of Germany is deficient both in coals and water mills. 1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy ii. 26 Let us compare together a watermill driven by a head of water, and a windmill driven by the wind. 1927 T. S. Eliot Journey of Magi A temperate valley..With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 240 The corn of Britain continued to be stone-ground in windmills or watermills until the first rollermill in the country was opened in Glasgow in 1872. 2002 B. Risebero Story Western Archit. (ed. 3) 42 The northern population..were to introduce into their agriculture the marling of top-soil, water-mills for grinding, the harrow and the flail. 2. More generally: machinery driven by a waterwheel; (also) the waterwheel itself. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > other mills martinet?c1475 watermill1580 overfall mill1615 breast mill1659 undershot1705 merchant mill1759 pounding mill1785 floating mill1796 steam-mill1801 pecker1802 chip mill1819 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Martinet, a water mill causing to rise the great hammer in the forge. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 9 The beere of Torge is much esteemed through all Misen, whereof they sell such quantity abroad, as ten water-mils besides wind-mils, scarcely serve the towne for this purpose. 1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xv. 337 Neither wants it great Sugar-works, which have Water-mills and Horse-mills. 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Bleach [Coarse linens] are..beaten by wooden hammers work'd by a water-mill. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 233 Large water-mills are erected for spinning silk, wool, and thread. 1862 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 17 July This rock is being taken to mills on the Carson for reduction... Were there water mills convenient to Cedar Hill, the whole mountain would pay for running through them. 1898 Foundry June 171/1 This foundry is located near our works and we cart the cinder and run it through our water mill. 1925 W. Bowden Industr. Soc. in Eng. ii. 87 Within five miles of Darlington in the county of Durham there were in 1789 three water mills for spinning hemp and flax as well as wool. 1995 Holiday Which? Mar. 78/2 Half-timbered houses from all over Alsace have been reconstructed here to form a kind of working village, with a watermill powering a timberyard to help in further construction. †3. slang. The female genitals; the vulva or vagina. Also: a woman as a source of sexual gratification. Obsolete.Usually as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] cuntc1230 quivera1382 chosec1386 privy chosea1387 quoniamc1405 naturec1470 shell1497 box1541 water gate1541 mouth1568 quiver case1568 water gap1586 cunnya1593 medlar1597 mark1598 buggle-boo1600 malkin1602 lap1607 skin coat1611 quim1613 nest1614 watermilla1626 bum1655 merkin1656 twat1656 notch1659 commodity1660 modicum1660 crinkum-crankum1670 honeypot1673 honour1688 muff1699 pussy1699 puss1707 fud1771 jock1790 cock?1833 fanny?1835 vaginac1890 rug1893 money-maker1896 Berkeley1899 Berkeley Hunt1899 twitchet1899 mingea1903 snatch1904 beaver1927 coozie1934 Sir Berkeley1937 pocketbook1942 pranny1949 zatch1950 cooch1955 bearded clam1962 noonie1966 chuff1967 coozea1968 carpet1981 pum-pum1983 front bum1985 coochie1986 punani1987 front bottom1991 va-jay-jay2000 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner cunnya1593 watermilla1626 piece of ass1816 fuck1870 gash1914 assa1916 mama1916 bim1922 pigmeat1926 nookie1928 screw1937 poontang1945 poon1947 trim1955 a bit (or piece) of crumpet1959 leg1968 a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbb2/1^v The Lord wants a water-Mill, and means to grind with her. 1656 Choyce Drollery 51 I love thee for thy lusty thighes, For tressels thou maist boast, Sweet-heart thou hast a water-mill, And these are the mill-posts. ?1695 Crafty Country Woman (single sheet) (verso) I will have my Tole, now you have ground your fill; You might have ground at home, in your Wive's Water-mill. 1764 J. Wilkes Ess. on Woman 23 The Water-mills against the Wind-mills for ever; and a fart for the a posteriori men. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Water-mill, the monosyllable [i.e. cunt]. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1585 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries (1920) 12th Ser. 7 402/2 P^d to Hille for xix Lodes cariedge of watermill gravell into the marshe xii^s viii^d. 1896 Irish Times 7 May 8 [A] strip of land..which..formed the embankment of a water mill race. 2013 Eastern Econ. Jrnl. Winter 18 Manufacturing..was freed from the locational constraints imposed by watermill power to locate in urban areas offering abundant inputs. C2. watermill wheel n. a water-powered wheel used to drive a mill or other machinery (cf. mill-wheel n. 1, waterwheel n. 1). ΚΠ c1450 (?c1425) St. Christina in Anglia (1885) 8 122 She wente streight vprighte on þe watir-mylne-whele. 1747 Scots Mag. Feb. 91/1 They poured more water into..[the hole], and that bubbled as before, and made a great noise like a water mill wheel. 1840 Liverpool Standard 9 June The common paddle-wheel, or rather water-mill wheel which has hitherto been the instrument of propulsion for our steam vessels..is beset with certain disadvantages. 1928 Irish Times 18 July 7 Victor Davies..and his father fell on to a water mill wheel and were carried thirty yards under the road into the mill race. 2011 A. Sebba That Woman xiii. 270 A mural..showing a stone watermill wheel entwined with the words ‘I'm not the miller's daughter but I've been through the mill’. Derivatives 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. Biii^v 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1371
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