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- noun Plural form of
gig-mill .
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It sets out with the principle, that everything that deteriorates manufactured articles does evil, continuing: 'And forasmuch as in many parts of this realm is newly and lately devised, erected, builded, and used, certain mills called gig-mills, for the perching and burling of cloth, by reason whereof the true drapery of this realm is wonderfully impaired, and the cloth thereof deceitfully made by reason of the using of the said gig-mills' -- and so provisions follow for their suppression.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Various 1841
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