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pecker mill

noun

Etymology

pecker (“a mechanical device moving in a pecking fashion”) + mill

Definitions

  1. A kind of rice mill.

    • Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.
    • The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill.
    • the capacity of such a pecker mill was increased simply by mounting several in a row to be driven by a common shaft.

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