[SNUFF sb.3 1.]
1. Sc. A snuff-box, snuff-mull.
a. 1689. W. Cleland, Poems (1697), 12 (Jam.). Right well mounted of their Gear:… With Durk, and Snap-work, and Snuff-mill.
1707. Lady G. Baillie, Household Bk. (1911), 18. For 3 snuf milnes £4.
1715. Mar’s Lament, in Roxb. Ball. (1888), VI. 621. Each man unto the spoyl he gat, some got plaids and snuff-mills in their pack.
1835. D. Webster, Sc. Rhymes, 27 (E.D.D.). His snuff mill was the horn o’ ram.
2. A mill, or machine, for grinding tobacco into snuff.
1758. in Jedburgh Gazette (1906), 29 Sept., 3. Snuff and Waulk Miln, [rent] £7:0:0.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 1255. The sides of the snuff-mill have sharp ridges from the top to near the bottom.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2232/1. The snuff-mills of Holland are on a very large scale, and are impelled by wind.
