Multure

[Note: The multure was the regular exaction for grinding the meal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Above all, she could not understand why, since she had acquaintances in the family, and since the Dame Glendinning had always paid her multure and knaveship duly, the said lass of the mill had not come in to rest herself and eat a morsel, and tell her the current news of the water. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miller; “it is always best to be sure, as I say when I chance to take multure twice from the same meal-sack.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the silver mines of Peru, we are told by Frezier and Ulloa, the proprietor frequently exacts no other acknowledgment from the undertaker of the mine, but that he will grind the ore at his mill, paying him the ordinary multure or price of grinding. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Took a load of corn and stole a half-bushel; mooter, or multure, is the toll of meal taken by the miller for grinding the corn: mooter-poke, or multure-pocket, is accordingly a nickname for a miller. ❋ Frederic William Moorman (1895)

"It will not be the worse of another bolting," said the Miller; "it is always best to be sure, as I say when I chance to take multure twice from the same meal-sack." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Kot many years ago, the multure, Uc. paid out of this farm was not near one half of what it is now, neither was the produce of it lels, however more. ❋ Unknown (1791)

More than one-half of the pa - rift* pays the eleventh peck as multure, befides paying the miller for working or grinding their grain. ❋ Unknown (1791)

Presbyterian trumpet as yoursell in the land, Mr. Cargill; and if ye will take a fule's advice, ye winna let the multure be ta'en by your ain mill, Mr.Cargill. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)