英语词汇“gig、mill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

gig-mill

释义

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.
1551–2Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 22 Milles called Gigge Milles, for the perchinge and burlinge of Clothe.1556Lease in Jeanes Catal. Berkeley Chart. (1892) 215 His two mylles under one roffe that is to say a corne myll and a giggmyll.1670–81Blount 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 22.1780A. Young Tour Irel. II. 34 A gigg mill for glossing, smoothing, and laying the grain.1816Chron. in Ann. Reg. 6/1 He [a cloth-dresser] having been employed in Ireland on a species of machinery called gig mills.1849C. Brontë Shirley ii, A gig-mill was burnt to the ground.1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 342/2 The teazles are arrayed in frames..The whole machine is called a gig-mill.

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