“plash-mill”的英文意思

单词

plash-mill

释义

ˈplash-mill Sc.
[f. plash v.² + mill; in Du. plasmolen.]
A fulling-mill.
1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 240 The plash-mill, or, more properly, wauk-mill—a word Robert derived from the resemblance of the mallets to two huge feet, and of their motion to walking—with the water plashing and squirting from the blows of their heels.
Hence ˈplash-ˌmiller, a fuller.
1822Dundee Advertiser 19 Dec. (Jam.), John Young, plash-miller at East Mill, was drowned in the river Esk.1897W. Lindsay in Bards of Angus & Mearns 282 Then I turned a plashmiller and wrought at that.

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