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Definition of Woad mill

Woad mill
Woad Woad, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad, and wade.] 1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. 2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. --Milton. Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

Meaning of Woad mill from wikipedia

- isatis tinctoria, with woad (icon , ˈ , w , oʊ , d; or glastum) as the common the medieval period onwards: file:schreber woad mill 1752.
- bank and the hamlet of brothertoft by major john cartwright to accommodate the workers of his red brick woad mill in the late 18th century.
- sir william pelham owned a woad mill in this area the lands were laid out after the drainage of holland fen by act of parliament in 1776
- the war of the bluesindigo versus woad: file:schreber woad mill 1752. jpg , a woad mill in thuringia , in germany, in 1752. the woad
- the last working woad mill in britain was in parson drove, and didn't close until 1910. it stood opposite st john the baptist church.
- soon after 1586 he moved to glympton near woodstock, oxfordshire , where he rented the manor, raised livestock and grew and milled woad
- together with the other five thuringian woad -towns of gotha , other parts of the stadtmuseum are the neue mühle (new mill), an old water
- brought up the canals to the wool mills in northern england with indigo or more traditionally with woad , before synthetic dyes were
- by 1685 there was a second fulling mill, and both mills supplied the in the 18th century to include clover, flax, hops, sainfoin and woad .
- the same indigo dye is contained in the woad plant, isatis tinctoria music by duke ellington and barney bigard with lyrics by irving mills