A fixed threshing-machine; usually, one driven by water or wind power (though the name was also given to those driven by a horizontal wheel drawn round by horses or oxen).
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 506/1. Such was the thrashing mill invented by Mr. Michael Stirling … 1758.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 308. The Scotch threshing mill seems to be entirely unknown in France.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 86. A considerable fall of water … used to give motion to a thrashing mill.
1902. R. C. Maclagan, Evil Eye in W. Highl., 64. They had no threshing-mill, and did it all with flails.
