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Literally, that which comes out of the mill. (Latin, e-mola.) It originally meant toll on what was ground. (See Grist.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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