multure

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[Note: The multure was the regular exaction for grinding the meal.

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  1. The act of grinding grain in a mill.
  2. The quantity of grain ground at one time; a grist.
  3. In Scots law, the toll or fee given, generally in kind, to the proprietor of a mill in return for the grinding of corn. Out of one sack he would take two moultures or fees for grinding. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 11. (Davies.) It is always best to be sure, as I say when I chance to take multure twice from the same meal-sack. Scott, Monastery.

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  • [Note: The multure was the regular exaction for grinding the meal. —  The Monastery
  • _Muter_, multure, ground corn. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
  • This was a tough true-blue Presbyterian, called Deans, who, though most obnoxious to the Laird on account of principles in church and state, contrived to maintain his ground upon the estate by regular payment of mail-duties, kain, arriage, carriage, dry multure, lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and all the various exactions now commuted for money, and summed up in the emphatic word rent. —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
  • The expression _lock, _ for a small quantity of any readily divisible dry substance, as corn, meal, flax, or the like, is still preserved, not only popularly, but in a legal description, as the _lock_ and _gowpen, _ or small quantity and handful, payable in thirlage cases, as in town multure. —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
  • In the silver mines of Peru, we are told by Frezier and Ulloa, the proprietor frequently exacts no other acknowledgment from the undertaker of the mine, but that he will grind the ore at his mill, paying him the ordinary multure or price of grinding. —  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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  1. Early modern English also moulture, mouter, mowter; from Middle English multure, multer, from Old French multure, moulture, molture, French mouture = Provencal moldura, moltura, moudura, a grinding, toll for grinding, from Latin molitura, a grinding, from mo-lere, past participle molitus, grind: see mill.
 

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