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(verb) - We are said to be drowning the miller when we are pouring in too large a quantity of water among the whisky to be mixed into grog . . . If too much water be let run on a mill, the wheel becomes drowned, as it were, and will not move the machinery.
--John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
January 15, 2018