Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug-mill.
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Examples
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Tea was soon concluded, and Miss Lillerton, drawing a small work - table on one side of the fire, and placing a little wooden frame upon it, something like a miniature clay-mill without the horse, was soon busily engaged in making a watch-guard with brown silk.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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Tea was soon concluded, and Miss Lillerton, drawing a small work - table on one side of the fire, and placing a little wooden frame upon it, something like a miniature clay-mill without the horse, was soon busily engaged in making a watch-guard with brown silk.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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