† ˈmillward Obs.
Forms: 1 mylenwyrd, myleweard, 4 milwarde, 5 millewarde, mylnard, 6 Sc. mylvart, 7 Sc. milwar(e, 8–9 Sc. millart, 9 dial. millard, -ert.
[OE. myle(n)weard, f. mylen mill n.1 + weard ward n., keeper.]
Originally, the keeper of a (manorial) mill; in later use = miller1 1.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 141/1 Molendinarius, uel molinarius, mylenwyrd. c 1050 Voc. ibid. 448/18 Molendarius, myleweard. c 1305 Pilate 6 in E.E.P. (1862) 111 Þe meleward þat hire fader was. 1380 Poll Tax in Rogers Oxf. City Doc. (1891) 11 De Willelmole Mulleward et Johanna vxore eius xviij.d. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 319 He gat a sone on oon Pila a milwardes douȝter þat heet Atus. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xvii. (1869) 144 Millewardes also that filleth here resoun with oute clepinge of resoun. 1598 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 175 Alexander Marschall, mylvart at the nather mylne of this burght. 1650 Croy Parish Session Min. Bk. 16 Aug. (MS.), Alexander McPhail Milware. Ibid. 15 Sept., Ye minister having askit ye elderie..giffe yai did try any privat hanting betwixt ye said William Dolas and his Milwars wyffe yai..Declairis yat yai could not [etc.]. c 1760 Skinner Christmas Ba'ing xxv. in Misc. Poet. (1809) 130 The millart's man, a suple fallow, Ran's he had been red wud. 1880 Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xiii, I've brushed till my arms ache, but my things is still like a millard's. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 62 Corn miller... Millard. |