Now rare. [f. WALK v.2 + MILL sb. Cf. G. walkmühle.] A fulling-mill.

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1359.  Mem. Ripon (Surtees), I. 282. Juxta aquam quæ currit usque le Walkemilne.

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1473.  in Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879), I. 188. The tendis of the corn mil and walkmyl remenand fre to the abbay.

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a. 1578.  Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 312. [The flood] buir away the walkmylnes.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXXV. xi. II. 550. Simus took pleasure in painting a yong man lying asleepe in a waulke-mill or Fullers worke-house.

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1710.  in Nairne Peerage Evid. (1874), 153. With multures walkmiln and pertinents therof.

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1894.  R. S. Ferguson, Hist. Westmorld., 165. The ‘steads’ or sites of many disused ‘walk mills’ or fulling mills upon the Kent.

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  b.  Comb.

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1344.  Mem. Ripon (Surtees), I. 141. Jacens in le Walkmylnbanke.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xxx. 314. His luddokkys thai lowke like walk-mylne cloggys.

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  Hence Walk-miller.

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1752.  in Scots Mag. (1753), July, 338/1. Angus Macdonald waulk-miller in Anchofragan.

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