ˈcorn-mill
Also 6 -miln.
1. A mill for grinding corn or grain; a flour-mill.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 9 b, There be many maner of mylnes as cornemylnes, wyndmylnes, horsemylnes. 1625 N. Riding Records IV. 159 A water corn mill. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 86 Man..can make corn-mills..that grind the corn he must else have pounded in a mortar. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 4 Where stood the corn-mill of the parish till the year 1703. |
2. A machine for roughly grinding the cobs of Indian corn for stock-feeding purposes. U.S.
So ˈcorn-miller, a miller.
| 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 648/2 J. Shepard..corn-miller. |