ˈtucking-mill
[f. tucking vbl. n.1 + mill n.1]
See quot. 1888. (A West of England term.)
| 1467–8 Rolls of Parlt. V. 587/1 A Water Mille 11 Tokyng Milles and Medowes, Pastures and Wodes. 1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 11 §4 No..Weaver..shall..kepe or have any Tucking Mill. 1617 Sir R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 176, I made him a new lease of thowld Tucking myll. 1796 W. Marshall W. England I. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Tucking-mill, fulling-mill. 1810 J. T. Risdon's Surv. Devon p. xxiv, The traces of ruined tucking mills, as they were provincially called,..denote the former extent of the manufactory. 1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Tucking-mill,..fuller's stocks, or beaters for milling cloth. The term is also applied to the building and machinery as a whole. |