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knocking mills

knocking mills is the plural of knocking mill.

Meaning of knocking mill

Noun

knocking mill (plural knocking mills)

  1. A type of mill powered by running water that repeatedly applies a heavy hammer to grain, ore, etc.
    • Up he started - the wind arose - the corn was chopped - the outlyers were foddered - the hand-mill moved around, as by instinct - and the knocking-mill did its work with amazing rapidity.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167

Questions about knocking mills

What is knocking mills the plural of?
Knocking mills is the plural of knocking mill.

Words near knocking mills in the dictionary

  1. knocking into shape
  2. knocking it off
  3. knocking it out of the ballpark
  4. knocking it out of the park
  5. knocking mill
  6. knocking mills
  7. knocking off
  8. knocking off someone's block
  9. knocking on
  10. knocking on heaven's door
  11. knocking on the door of

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