Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Certain lands which by legal custom appertained to a corn-mill, especially in Scotland.
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Examples
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Starting at once from her dream of marriages and intermarriages, mills, mill-lands, and baronies, Dame Elspeth felt for a moment like the milk-maid in the fable, when she overset the pitcher, on the contents of which so many golden dreams were founded.
The Monastery 2008
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Starting at once from her dream of marriages and intermarriages, mills, mill-lands, and baronies, Dame Elspeth felt for a moment like the milk-maid in the fable, when she overset the pitcher, on the contents of which so many golden dreams were founded.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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