gig-mill
[f. gig n.1 + mill.]
a. A machine for raising a nap on cloth by the use of teazles or wire-cards. b. A building in which such machines are used.
| 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 22 Milles called Gigge Milles, for the perchinge and burlinge of Clothe. 1556 Lease in Jeanes Catal. Berkeley Chart. (1892) 215 His two mylles under one roffe that is to say a corne myll and a giggmyll. 1670–81 Blount Glossogr., Gig-mills, were Mills used in the Fulling of cloth, which with Iron cards are prohibited by the Statutes of 3 Ed. 6 2, 5 Ed. 6 22. 1780 A. Young Tour Irel. II. 34 A gigg mill for glossing, smoothing, and laying the grain. 1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 6/1 He [a cloth-dresser] having been employed in Ireland on a species of machinery called gig mills. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley ii, A gig-mill was burnt to the ground. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 342/2 The teazles are arrayed in frames..The whole machine is called a gig-mill. |