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mill-wheel
ˈmill-wheel [f. mill n.1 + wheel n.] 1. A wheel used to drive a mill, esp. a water-wheel used for that purpose.c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 232 Seo heofon..tyrnð onbutan us, swiftre þonne æniᵹ mylnn-hweol. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xii. 126 Syr, a letter of youre grace, Here comys slaw-pase ffro the myln wh...
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Blarney Woollen Mills
The resulting pressure drove the mill-wheel at Blarney, via the millstream and millrace.
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mill-tail
ˈmill-tail [f. mill n.1 + tail n.] The water which runs away from a mill-wheel; also, the channel in which the water runs away.1611 Cotgr. s.v. Moulin, He that hurts himselfe to helpe others, will dye of thirst at the Mill-tayle. 1667 Boston Rec. (1881) VII. 33 Will Whitwell hath liberty..to wharfe ...
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Low Mill
To generate enough water pressure to power the mill-wheel, a large dam covering was built which was fed by a mill-race (goit).
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Charlton, Hertfordshire
The mill-wheel was adapted by his grandfather to power a small foundry.
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mill-race
ˈmill-race [f. mill n.1 + race n.] The current of water that drives a mill-wheel; the channel in which the water runs to the mill.1478–9 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 647 Operantibus in muracione murorum et posicione del Milnrasses et le bay ejusdem molendini. 1536–7 Ibid. 702 Le mylnerasse de Scaltok...
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Llantrisant, Monmouthshire
When the mill stopped working, one of Moore's sons was reputed to have buried the mill-wheel under the floor.
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Mühlau
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The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Base-Semi Mill-Wheel Sable and Coupeaux Vert.
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treadmill
treadmilln1 mill-wheel turned by the weight of people or animals treading on steps round its inside edge (formerly worked by prisoners as a punishment) (人力或畜力的)踏车(旧时用以惩治囚犯).2 (fig 比喻) tiring or monotonous routine work; drudgery 累人的或单调的例行工作; 繁重乏味的工作 I can't get off the office treadmill. 我无法摆脱单调的坐班工作.
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snareless
ˈsnareless, a. [f. snare n.] a. Free from snares.1823 C. A. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 139 Stopt was the busy mill-wheel now, Snareless the rippling brook. b. Without a snare.1978 Early Music Jan. 29/1 Drums are often snareless, though the pictorial evidence is that the cylindrical drum almost always...
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William Hamilton (British Army officer)
I have visited your cities
Where the unregenerate dwell;
I have trilled the ploughman's ditties
To the mill-wheel and the well.
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Wiliberg
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The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent a Vine branch Vert leaved of two of the same and fructed Azure and Azure a base-semi Mill-Wheel
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