pecker mill
Noun
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Noun
pecker mill (plural pecker mills)
- (US dialectal, historical) A kind of rice mill.
- 1802, J. Drayton, A view of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns, 121
- Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.
- 1802, J. Drayton, A view of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns, 121
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