pecker mill

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Etymology

pecker (“a mechanical device moving in a pecking fashion”) + mill

Noun

pecker mill (plural pecker mills)

  1. (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.
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