pecker mill

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pecker mill

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

noun pecker mills

  1. US, dialectal, historical A kind of rice mill. 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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@misc{pecker_mill_2026,
  title = {pecker mill},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pecker%20mill},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}