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Nice one, stales!
Your explanation sounds very reasonable, although I had been led to believe that it came from the Lancashire and Yorkshire textile mills.
Most mills would produce just one type of cloth, and the looms would be set up to produce just that. If there was an order for something special and different, a loom or looms would have to be set up differently.
So the usual product was what was normally set up to "run" through the mill. A special cloth might well be referred to as, "This stuff an't jus' t'roon o't mill, lad!"
And a reagent, Jackie, is something that reacts with other things - often an acid or alkali, I think
(Rhuby, GCE "O" Level Chemistry [failed])
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted run of the mill Anonymous 12/05/01 04:48 PM Re: run of the mill of troy 12/05/01 05:25 PM Re: run of the mill wwh 12/05/01 08:59 PM Re: run of the mill stales 12/06/01 01:25 AM Re: run of the mill Jackie 12/06/01 11:42 AM Re: run of the mill RhubarbCommando 12/06/01 12:11 PM Re: run of the mill stales 12/06/01 02:54 PM Re: run of the mill stales 12/06/01 05:22 PM Re: run of the mill Keiva 12/06/01 09:16 PM Re: run of the mill Wordwind 12/06/01 09:34 PM Re: run of the mill Wordwind 12/06/01 09:46 PM Old mills TEd Remington 12/06/01 11:00 PM Re: Old mills Jackie 12/07/01 02:10 AM
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