mill-rind
(ˈmɪlraɪnd)
Also 6–9 -rynd, 7–8 milrine.
[f. mill n.1 + rind n.]
The iron which supports the upper millstone of a corn-mill, and carries the eye which rests upon the end of the mill spindle.
| 1542 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 325 A spendyll and a melle rynd for the lyttel Itallyon melle. 1870 Eng. Mech. 11 Mar. 624/1 ‘Back lash’, frequently occasions a ‘break down’ by fracturing the ‘millrynd’. 1888 J. Ward in Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. X. 54 Mr. Jno. Evans..suggest that they were for the insertion of a ‘millrine’. |
b. Her. A conventional representation of this.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 34 b, Yee should cal it a Ferdemolene, which is as much to say, as a Milrind. 1680 Mackenzie Heraldry 46 A cross milrine. 1727 Bailey vol. II, s.v., A Cross Milrine, is a Cross that has the 4 Ends clamped and turned again..only the Milrine hath but 2 Limbs, whereas the Cross Moline hath 4. 1874 Papworth & Morant Ord. Brit. Arm. 956 Or on a millrind sa. five estoiles arg. |