word-mill

Because the noise of a mill-wheel sends one to sleep, and these pages without paragraphs, these interminable chapters, and this incessant, dialectical clatter, affect me as though I were listening to a word-mill.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

She remained nearly an hour, planted on a chair, watching with a sort of stupor the turning of the fan of this word-mill, whose clapper kept up such an incessant noise.

Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864

Come open thy word-mill, Kate, and pour in the red grist, lass. "

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819