Tucking-mill

[f. TUCKING vbl. sb.¹ + MILL sb.¹] See quot. 1888 (A West of England term.)

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1467–8. Rolls of Parlt., V. 587/1. A Water Mille 11 Tokyng Milles and Medowes, Pastures and Wodes.

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1555. Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary, c. 11 § 4. No … Weaver … shall … kepe or have any Tucking Mill.

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1617. Sir R. Boyle, Diary, in Lismore Papers (1886), I. 176. I made him a new lease of thowld Tucking myll.

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1796. W. Marshall, W. England, I. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Tucking-mill, fulling-mill.

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1810. J. T., Risdon’s Surv. Devon, p. xxiv. The traces of ruined tucking mills, as they were provincially called,… denote the former extent of the manufactory.

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1888. Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Tucking-mill,… fuller’s stocks, or beaters for milling cloth. The term is also applied to the building and machinery as a whole.

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