ˈmill-pick, -peck
[f. mill n.1 + pick n., peck n.2]
An iron tool for giving to mill-stones the requisite corrugated surface.
| c 1357 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 560, 6 Milnpikkes. 1525 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 55 The makyng of spyndyll and the myll pycks. 1588 in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) III. 3 Furred throrough with mynnyover and calloper like myll pykes. 1880 Jefferies Gt. Estate 163 The millpeck is a little tool like a double adze. |
b. Her. A figure or representation of a mill-pick.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 92 b, The Frenchmen take it [the Fusil] for a spindell,..and the Dutchmen take it for a milpeck. 1634 Peacham Gentl. Exerc. iii. 150 Very honourable and ancient. As the Crosse Moline (given by the..family of Molineux) Mil-peckes, and most irons appertaining to the Mill. 1874 Papworth & Morant Ord. Brit. Arm. 979 Arg. three mill-picks gu. Pickworth. |
So † mill picker, one who fashions the grinding surfaces of millstones.
| c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Here is wyll wyly the myl peker. |