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sm Water-mill.
Parts of a water-mill (DMy):
1 Loch a' mhuilinn, mill-pond.
2 Eas a' mhuilinn, mill-race, stream of water that turns the mill-wheel.
3 Roth mór a' mhuilinn, the mill-wheel which drives the mill.
4 Drabhailt, mill-hopper, into which the grain is put to feed the mil!.
5 Clagan, mill-dapper with three ridges, striking the spout of hopper to cause the grain to fall into the eye of the mill.
6 Sùil a' mhuilinn, eye of mill.
7 Fiacaill a' mhuilinn, nether side of upper stone and upper side of nether stow.
8 Aotroman, screw for increasing or decreasing pressure of stones on the grain and that making flour fine or coarse.
9 Rothan a' mhuilinn, mill-wheels.
10 Cnogaisean, no fiaclan nan rothan, cogs on mill-wheels.
11 An criathar mór, mill-sieve, with two or three sheets and worked by waterpower instead of by hand.

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