multure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical or chiefly Scottish: a fee paid to a mill owner for grinding grain or pulverizing ore, often taken in kind

   The mine owner charged the ordinary multure for crushing ore at his mill.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: the act or process of grinding material at a mill

   The estate accounts recorded both the grain sent for multure and the fee retained by the mill.

From Middle English multure, through Anglo-French molture, from Medieval Latin molitura ('grinding'), based on Latin molere ('to grind'). The fee sense arose from the miller's customary share of what was ground.

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