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Examples : — 



Crushing Mill — for lead ore. 



Mickleton Mill — A.-S. myll, mill, micel, great, tim, dwelling. 



Millbank. — A.-S. myll; Icel. hahhi, bank; Siiio-Groth. lacke, 

 ahiU. 



Low Mill. . 



Demesne Mill (flax) — Demesne, or that part of a manor which 

 the lord held in his own hand, hut occasionally leased to a farmer, 

 &c. Boldon Buke Gloss. 



Mill (corn) — thrice. 



Pencil Mill (slate pencils) — at Cronkley Scar. See CROisrEXET. 



Mill Beck— beck of the mill. 



Blackton Smelting Mill (for lead ore). 



Mell "W aters. East and West — perhaps Mill Waters. See Mell. 



In nearly all European languages, from Greek, or Sanscrit. 



Mine. 



" This the etymologists agree to derive from minare^ a word of 

 the lower ages, signifying ducere, to lead ; French mener, (see 

 Skinner, Menage, and Wachter), whence the Latin mmare." 

 Eichardson goes on to say, " the A.-S. munan, to mark, denote, 

 designate, is probably the root, to draw or lead {sic), a way or 

 passage underground, a subterranean duct, course, or passage, 

 whether in search of metals or to destroy fortifications." 



K'ow, in Bosworth, munan, or c/emunan, is to remember, call 

 to mind, consider, reflect, so that this word in A.-S. does not 

 imply leading or mining, but something very different, namely, 

 minding, and this suggestion may be put aside. 



The above-named etymologists who, Eichardson says, have 

 agreed to derive minare from mener, appear to have, in this in- 

 stance, failed. Du Gauge takes the opposite view, deriving 

 mener from minare. Littre does not see how the e in the first 

 syllable of mener can be changed to the i of minare. He suggests 

 as a more likely derivation that minare has come from minium, 

 red lead, or cinnabar, to dig out which would be minare, and 

 that that term gradually came to be afterwards transferred to 



