millingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɪlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmɪlɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English mellenge, 1600s– milling; also Scottish pre-1700 milneing, pre-1700 milning.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mill n.¹, -ing suffix¹; mill v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: In quot. 1466 at sense 1a probably < mill n.¹ + -ing suffix¹; in subsequent use < mill v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

I. Senses relating to processing in a mill.

1. The action or process of subjecting something to the operation of a mill.

a. The action of grinding something (esp. corn) in a mill; (usually attributive) the business or trade founded on this process.high milling: see high adj. and n.² Compounds 4. low milling: see low adj. and n.² Compounds 3.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [noun]

grindc1200

grinding1340

contritionc1384

brayingc1440

milling1466

braisinga1500

comminution1578

pealing1582

pounding1591

contusion1617

pulping1640

pistillation1646

trituration1646

triture1657

commolition1658

grist1676

porphyrization1771

comminuting1776

atomization1865

micronization1941

micronizing1941

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun]

milling1466

millering1761

mealinga1810

flouring1855

farination1859

high grinding1869

gristing1883

corn-grinding1905

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [adjective] > grinding

mealingc1450

milling1886

1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 346 Item, delyverd to Blowbolle fore mellenge and otemelle, vjd.

1609 in T. Mair Narr. & Extracts Rec. Presbytery of Ellon (1898) 81 Leiding, scheiring, milling [etc., on Sundays].

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 139 The Description and Manner of drying and Milling thereof [sc. madder roots]..I leave to those that are better experienced therein.

1774 Pennsylvania Gaz. 16 Sept. 2/3 (advt.) He..speaks pretty good English, is apt to talk.., but knows very little about milling, flatting or farming.

1851 Sci. Amer. 6 Sept. 407 Strong inducements and flattering encouragements are held out to induce the milling community to purchase said Mill.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 344/2 Thus we have these various systems:—(1) flat milling or grinding; (2) high milling or granulation; (3) roller milling or crushing; (4) disintegrator milling or crushing.

1886 Leeds Mercury 16 Feb. 6/6 The large milling firms in London.

1903 Q. Rev. Oct. 641 There is little hope, however, of rural milling being revived.

1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 342/2 Mano, a cylindrically shaped grindstone slightly tapered at both ends..used as the upper stone in milling.

1991 Farmers Weekly 26 July 44 Winter oats for milling are now ripening quickly.

b. The processing or treatment of a substance or material in any kind of mill, as the operation of fulling cloth, rolling metals, crushing minerals, etc.; (Engineering) the shaping of metal using rotary motion (cf. milling machine n. (b) at Compounds 2). Also: an instance of this.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > rolling

rolling1530

milling1613

hot rolling1853

cogging1878

roll-forming1922

skin pass1932

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > machining

milling1613

spinning1857

profiling1888

drilling1894

jig-boring1932

spark machining1954

spark erosion1955

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling

waulkingc1300

fulling1383

thickingc1440

tucking1467

tuckage1612

milling1884

1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing ii. 7 Their search..is threefold, one from the Loome, one from the milling, or thickening, and one from the dressing.

c1617 Ledsam & Williams in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 208 The drawing of gold and silver wire, and milling of it after the manner of England and France.

1679 J. Houghton Coll. Improvem. Husb. No. 266 (1727) II. 211 Lead is mightily improv'd of late by a new invention of milling.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Milling, or Throwing of Silk, is the last preparation of Silk before dying... To prepare the Silks for Milling, they first put it in boiling Water.

1748 Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 Nov. 3/2 (advt.) [He] had on..two linsey woolsey jackets, one of which is striped, with leather buttons, and patched on the shoulder; the other a new one, made up without milling, with a large brass button at top and bottom.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland ii. 34 A mill for milling, tucking, &c. broad cloths.

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 35 The prices of labor, lumber, and charges for milling [of quartz] during the year, have not varied much.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1441/1 Milling,..the mastication and grinding of slip for porcelain.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) i. 12 We have seen a piece of worsted cloth..shrink after two hours' milling into one-third of its former dimensions.

1892 P. N. Hasluck Milling Machines 1 Milling is a term now generally understood as meaning the shaping of metals with rotary cutters.

1926 W. A. Poucher Perfumes Cosmetics & Soaps (ed. 2) II. vii. 220 Four millings are generally enough for all purposes.

1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 175 Most cheesemakers carry out a ‘hot iron test’..to determine if the curd is ready for milling.

1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 305/1 Other methods used to scalp the ingot are by chipping, milling, planing or by means of the oxyacetylene torch.

1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xxii. 611 Milling is a basic machining process by which a surface is generated progressively by the removal of chips from a workpiece as it is fed to a rotating cutter in direction perpendicular to the axis of the cutter.

1992 Country Woman 40/2 Full-length logs are left at their original size and shape, with little or no milling.

2. Coining. The operation of producing coins in a mill; the operation of creating by special machinery a pattern or repeated motif around the edge of a coin, esp. as a protection against clipping; the patterned or grooved edge of a coin. Also (U.S.): the operation of producing by special machinery a raised edge to a coin.

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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > specific processes

reduction1581

milling1639

collaring1834

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > milled or inscribed edge

milling1639

graining block1688

tranché1697

engrailment1856

reeding1872

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] > knurling or milling of edge

knurling1611

milling1639

1639–41 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1880) IV. 546 That the milling of money be discharged.

1742 P. Vallavine Observ. Current Coin of Kingdom 18 There is a beautiful Guinea of the Year 1667, with very little Graining round the either side, the Milling or cranelling Work on the Edge of the first Invention.

1817 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Brit. I. 141 A graining has been devised for the protection of their [sc. the smaller coins'] outer edge. This, which is generally known by the technical term Milling, was first used in 1663.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1441/1 Milling,..an action such as that which upsets the edge of a coin, making the raised flanges which protect the ornaments in relief on the obverse and reverse sides of the coin.

1876 G. D. Mathews Coinages of World i. 7 The saw-like edge possessed by modern coins is called the milling.

1937 Discovery Aug. 231/2 Not to be confused with the ‘milling’..or, more properly, ‘graining’, on the edges of our modern silver [coins].

1994 S. Mitchell & B. Reeds Coins of Eng. & U.K. (ed. 29) p. xiii The crenellations around the edge of the coin, commonly known as ‘milling’.

II. Other uses.

a. slang. The action of beating or fighting with the fists; a beating, a fist fight. Frequently attributive. Now rare.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person

threshingOE

sousingc1580

rib-roast1595

basting1599

swingeing1603

cuffing1610

lamming1611

rib-roasting1613

mauling1621

pinking1637

drubbing1650

diverberation1651

verberation1661

trimming1675

rib1699

thrashing1720

dousing1721

fagging1746

bumping1751

dusting1799

clapperclawing1806

milling1806

hiding1809

punishment1811

doing1814

bethumping1831

mugging1846

jacketing1850

frailing1851

pasting1851

towelling1851

tanning1863

fum-fum1885

ribbing1894

paddywhack1898

tanking1905

beating-up1915

shellacking1931

sloshing1931

clobbering1948

twatting1963

duffing-up1967

1806 Sporting Mag. Jan. 210/2 He..sustained a very severe milling.

1813 Ld. Byron Let. 22 Aug. (1974) III. 94 Jackson, the boxer..decoyed Yarmouth to see a milling.

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 148 All three got a merited milling in a few minutes.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 7 He soon left the field, acknowledging Tom to be his master in the milling line.

1927 in F. Shay My Pious Friends 98 The next round started, from the go The millin' we did wasn't slow.

1999 Independent on Sunday 11 July i. 6/8 The Paras have the toughest basic course in the Regular Army, including ‘milling’, a recruit fighting a succession of opponents in two minutes of unarmed combat, no holds barred.

†b. In extended use: viciousness in horses. Cf. miller n.¹ 4b. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > vicious or bad-tempered > quality of being

jadishness1594

jaderya1625

milling1897

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 341/2 Milling, old term for kicking in horses.

4. Originally U.S. The action of moving continuously round in a circling mass; the action of moving around in or among a crowd or in an aimless or confused manner.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle

umganga1300

umganginga1340

circlingc1440

compassing1530

circuition1533

circulation1535

round1539

circumgyration1606

rounding1612

circuling1647

circuiting1659

circumagitation1660

circuity1770

ringing1868

milling1874

circumfluence1881

ring-a-ring1922

mill1961

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > moving without fixed course

vagationc1340

roving?1520

straying1548

wandering1827

milling1924

minnow-twisting1935

1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 101 Drovers consider that the cattle do themselves great injury by running round in a circle, which is termed in cow-boy parlance, ‘milling’.

1924 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 607 Jack..stood outside the door and watched the milling of the excited, hysterical women.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 41 Milling, milling around, flying at high speed in and out across one another's path; or flying in a defensive circle, with the nose of one aircraft a few yards from the tail of another.

a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) iv. 33 I..was not sure after so much reversing and milling around, exactly what the situation was.

1982 J. Wain Young Shoulders vii. 173 In the general milling, I was separated from the parents.

Compounds

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a. General attributive.

milling business n.

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1767 Pennsylvania Gaz. 23 July 4/1 (advt.) To be Sold at public vendue..the whole of the stock and implements for carrying on the iron and milling business.

1991 C. Anderson Grain v. 42 John Mather was the practical man who got things done. Mather had been a Lake of the Woods lumberman before entering the milling business.

milling cutter n.

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1864 Sci. Amer. 6 Aug. 86/3 Milling cutters may be hardened in the usual way, and tempered to a yellowish white.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 177 Milling cutters have the advantage of retaining their sharpness for a considerable time.

1991 Metalworking Production Sept. q2/2 New products include..an extended range of milling cutters.

milling power n.

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1852 De Bow's Rev. May 526 The milling power of the city is large, there being twenty mills with 58 run of burrs.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 540 Running water, frequently affording excellent milling power.

milling tool n.

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1851 Sci. Amer. 26 Apr. 254 List of patent claims... To John Buckingham & J. H. Baird, of Watertown, Conn., (assignors to The Scovill Manufacturing Co.), for improved Milling Tool.

1876 J. Rose Compl. Pract. Machinist xvi. 303 One of the main advantages of milling-tools is that the work will, in nearly all cases, be true.

1986 A. Francis New Technol. at Work iv. 69 The machine would..automatically..control the speed of rotation of the chuck of the lathe, or of the milling tool, and carry out the work while the operator stood by.

milling trade n.

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1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 589/2 I do not despair of seeing operations of this nature form a very important feature in the milling trade.

1865 Public Opinion 4 Mar. 218/2 Where are the milling and corn trades, formerly so prosperous in Ireland?

1987 18th-cent. Stud. 20 494 Kaplan gives definition to the forces working for and against modernization in the grain and milling trades.

b. With the sense ‘suitable for being milled’.

milling gold n.

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1895 Daily News 3 Dec. 9/3 The average yield of free milling gold is about 1¼ ounce per ton.

† milling-ore n. Obsolete

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1870 J. C. Van Tramp Prairie & Rocky Mt. Adventures 643 The average cost of milling ores was $75 per ton. There were 36,000 tons of ore extracted in 1865.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 257 A large part of the ore is milling-ore.

milling wheat n.

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1883 Overland Monthly July 12 It is not as good milling wheat as other descriptions, but for crop purposes I consider it better.

1992 Farmers Guardian 7 Aug. 8/3 He says he will probably stick with feed wheat but may try growing some milling wheat.

c. (In sense 3a.)

† milling-match n. Obsolete

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1811 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 37 The Royal Milling Match.

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 49 Account of the Milling-match between Entellus and Dares.

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milling frolic n. Canadian (in Nova Scotia) a family or community gathering at which cloth is milled, and singing and dancing take place (now only as a deliberately preserved tradition); a social event at which traditional songs from such a gathering are performed.

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1936 G. Brinley Away to Cape Breton 199 When the Scotch Highland housewives of this countryside have woven thirty or forty yards of woolen cloth..the word goes 'round that there is to be a Milling frolic.

1948 N. MacNeil Highland Heart in Nova Scotia 57 When large bolts were available the family would have a ‘milling frolic’... The leader would start a long lilting song and as she did the ‘milling’ would begin, the girls along the sides joining lustily in the chorus, and all beating and thumping the cloth against the bench in time to the tune.

1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 18 Aug. 34 The Johnstown Milling Frolic... There will be Gaelic singing, bingo, a lunch served and a bake and craft sale as well as a square dance.

milling machine n. a machine for milling; spec. (a) a rotary machine for fulling cloth; (b) Engineering a machine in which an object fixed to a carriage is subjected to the action of a rotating tool.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > milling

milling machine1849

miller1890

milling machine1849

1849 Sci. Amer. 8 Sept. 406/3 But by the aid of a Milling Machine, half rotted hemp can be broken with great rapidity.

1861 J. H. Burton Let. 20 July in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1900) 4th Ser. I. 509 The most numerous class of machines now in the armory is that known as ‘milling machines’.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 661/2 The cloth to be fulled is well saturated with hot soap and water..and rubbed between rollers in the milling-machine while so heated and soaped.

1953 L. E. Doyle Metal Machining xii. 266 A milling machine must hold and rotate a cutter and have means to hold a workpiece and move it uniformly in at least one direction.

1962 W. J. Onions Wool xi. 245 In the operation of milling..fabrics are thickened and shrunk to a desired width..The operation is usually carried out in the rotary milling machine.

1991 Mech. Engin. Sept. 15/1 (advt.) Up to a staggering 90% reduction in power consumption for machining centers, NC lathes, milling machines, [etc.].

milling right n. now historical the right to operate a mill on another's land, esp. (French History and Canadian History) bestowed by a feudal seigneur; cf. mill right n. at mill n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1870 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 5 671 The exercise of a milling right on a river.

1982 Speculum 57 121 The minting authority had the recognized right to reserve a portion of the minted bullion for himself as a seignioriage, just as the holder of milling rights could reserve a portion of the flour.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milling
释义	millingn.¹ Brit. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English mellenge, 1600s– milling; also Scottish pre-1700 milneing, pre-1700 milning. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mill n.¹, -ing suffix¹; mill v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: In quot. 1466 at sense 1a probably < mill n.¹ + -ing suffix¹; in subsequent use < mill v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. I. Senses relating to processing in a mill. 1. The action or process of subjecting something to the operation of a mill. a. The action of grinding something (esp. corn) in a mill; (usually attributive) the business or trade founded on this process.high milling: see high adj. and n.² Compounds 4. low milling: see low adj. and n.² Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [noun] grindc1200 grinding1340 contritionc1384 brayingc1440 milling1466 braisinga1500 comminution1578 pealing1582 pounding1591 contusion1617 pulping1640 pistillation1646 trituration1646 triture1657 commolition1658 grist1676 porphyrization1771 comminuting1776 atomization1865 micronization1941 micronizing1941 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] milling1466 millering1761 mealinga1810 flouring1855 farination1859 high grinding1869 gristing1883 corn-grinding1905 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [adjective] > grinding mealingc1450 milling1886 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 346 Item, delyverd to Blowbolle fore mellenge and otemelle, vjd. 1609 in T. Mair Narr. & Extracts Rec. Presbytery of Ellon (1898) 81 Leiding, scheiring, milling [etc., on Sundays]. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 139 The Description and Manner of drying and Milling thereof [sc. madder roots]..I leave to those that are better experienced therein. 1774 Pennsylvania Gaz. 16 Sept. 2/3 (advt.) He..speaks pretty good English, is apt to talk.., but knows very little about milling, flatting or farming. 1851 Sci. Amer. 6 Sept. 407 Strong inducements and flattering encouragements are held out to induce the milling community to purchase said Mill. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 344/2 Thus we have these various systems:—(1) flat milling or grinding; (2) high milling or granulation; (3) roller milling or crushing; (4) disintegrator milling or crushing. 1886 Leeds Mercury 16 Feb. 6/6 The large milling firms in London. 1903 Q. Rev. Oct. 641 There is little hope, however, of rural milling being revived. 1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 342/2 Mano, a cylindrically shaped grindstone slightly tapered at both ends..used as the upper stone in milling. 1991 Farmers Weekly 26 July 44 Winter oats for milling are now ripening quickly. b. The processing or treatment of a substance or material in any kind of mill, as the operation of fulling cloth, rolling metals, crushing minerals, etc.; (Engineering) the shaping of metal using rotary motion (cf. milling machine n. (b) at Compounds 2). Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > rolling rolling1530 milling1613 hot rolling1853 cogging1878 roll-forming1922 skin pass1932 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > machining milling1613 spinning1857 profiling1888 drilling1894 jig-boring1932 spark machining1954 spark erosion1955 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling waulkingc1300 fulling1383 thickingc1440 tucking1467 tuckage1612 milling1884 1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing ii. 7 Their search..is threefold, one from the Loome, one from the milling, or thickening, and one from the dressing. c1617 Ledsam & Williams in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 208 The drawing of gold and silver wire, and milling of it after the manner of England and France. 1679 J. Houghton Coll. Improvem. Husb. No. 266 (1727) II. 211 Lead is mightily improv'd of late by a new invention of milling. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Milling, or Throwing of Silk, is the last preparation of Silk before dying... To prepare the Silks for Milling, they first put it in boiling Water. 1748 Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 Nov. 3/2 (advt.) [He] had on..two linsey woolsey jackets, one of which is striped, with leather buttons, and patched on the shoulder; the other a new one, made up without milling, with a large brass button at top and bottom. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland ii. 34 A mill for milling, tucking, &c. broad cloths. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 35 The prices of labor, lumber, and charges for milling [of quartz] during the year, have not varied much. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1441/1 Milling,..the mastication and grinding of slip for porcelain. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) i. 12 We have seen a piece of worsted cloth..shrink after two hours' milling into one-third of its former dimensions. 1892 P. N. Hasluck Milling Machines 1 Milling is a term now generally understood as meaning the shaping of metals with rotary cutters. 1926 W. A. Poucher Perfumes Cosmetics & Soaps (ed. 2) II. vii. 220 Four millings are generally enough for all purposes. 1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 175 Most cheesemakers carry out a ‘hot iron test’..to determine if the curd is ready for milling. 1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 305/1 Other methods used to scalp the ingot are by chipping, milling, planing or by means of the oxyacetylene torch. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xxii. 611 Milling is a basic machining process by which a surface is generated progressively by the removal of chips from a workpiece as it is fed to a rotating cutter in direction perpendicular to the axis of the cutter. 1992 Country Woman 40/2 Full-length logs are left at their original size and shape, with little or no milling. 2. Coining. The operation of producing coins in a mill; the operation of creating by special machinery a pattern or repeated motif around the edge of a coin, esp. as a protection against clipping; the patterned or grooved edge of a coin. Also (U.S.): the operation of producing by special machinery a raised edge to a coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > specific processes reduction1581 milling1639 collaring1834 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > milled or inscribed edge milling1639 graining block1688 tranché1697 engrailment1856 reeding1872 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] > knurling or milling of edge knurling1611 milling1639 1639–41 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1880) IV. 546 That the milling of money be discharged. 1742 P. Vallavine Observ. Current Coin of Kingdom 18 There is a beautiful Guinea of the Year 1667, with very little Graining round the either side, the Milling or cranelling Work on the Edge of the first Invention. 1817 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Brit. I. 141 A graining has been devised for the protection of their [sc. the smaller coins'] outer edge. This, which is generally known by the technical term Milling, was first used in 1663. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1441/1 Milling,..an action such as that which upsets the edge of a coin, making the raised flanges which protect the ornaments in relief on the obverse and reverse sides of the coin. 1876 G. D. Mathews Coinages of World i. 7 The saw-like edge possessed by modern coins is called the milling. 1937 Discovery Aug. 231/2 Not to be confused with the ‘milling’..or, more properly, ‘graining’, on the edges of our modern silver [coins]. 1994 S. Mitchell & B. Reeds Coins of Eng. & U.K. (ed. 29) p. xiii The crenellations around the edge of the coin, commonly known as ‘milling’. II. Other uses. 3. a. slang. The action of beating or fighting with the fists; a beating, a fist fight. Frequently attributive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 1806 Sporting Mag. Jan. 210/2 He..sustained a very severe milling. 1813 Ld. Byron Let. 22 Aug. (1974) III. 94 Jackson, the boxer..decoyed Yarmouth to see a milling. 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 148 All three got a merited milling in a few minutes. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 7 He soon left the field, acknowledging Tom to be his master in the milling line. 1927 in F. Shay My Pious Friends 98 The next round started, from the go The millin' we did wasn't slow. 1999 Independent on Sunday 11 July i. 6/8 The Paras have the toughest basic course in the Regular Army, including ‘milling’, a recruit fighting a succession of opponents in two minutes of unarmed combat, no holds barred. †b. In extended use: viciousness in horses. Cf. miller n.¹ 4b. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > vicious or bad-tempered > quality of being jadishness1594 jaderya1625 milling1897 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 341/2 Milling, old term for kicking in horses. 4. Originally U.S. The action of moving continuously round in a circling mass; the action of moving around in or among a crowd or in an aimless or confused manner. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle umganga1300 umganginga1340 circlingc1440 compassing1530 circuition1533 circulation1535 round1539 circumgyration1606 rounding1612 circuling1647 circuiting1659 circumagitation1660 circuity1770 ringing1868 milling1874 circumfluence1881 ring-a-ring1922 mill1961 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > moving without fixed course vagationc1340 roving?1520 straying1548 wandering1827 milling1924 minnow-twisting1935 1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 101 Drovers consider that the cattle do themselves great injury by running round in a circle, which is termed in cow-boy parlance, ‘milling’. 1924 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 607 Jack..stood outside the door and watched the milling of the excited, hysterical women. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 41 Milling, milling around, flying at high speed in and out across one another's path; or flying in a defensive circle, with the nose of one aircraft a few yards from the tail of another. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) iv. 33 I..was not sure after so much reversing and milling around, exactly what the situation was. 1982 J. Wain Young Shoulders vii. 173 In the general milling, I was separated from the parents. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. milling business n. ΚΠ 1767 Pennsylvania Gaz. 23 July 4/1 (advt.) To be Sold at public vendue..the whole of the stock and implements for carrying on the iron and milling business. 1991 C. Anderson Grain v. 42 John Mather was the practical man who got things done. Mather had been a Lake of the Woods lumberman before entering the milling business. milling cutter n. ΚΠ 1864 Sci. Amer. 6 Aug. 86/3 Milling cutters may be hardened in the usual way, and tempered to a yellowish white. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 177 Milling cutters have the advantage of retaining their sharpness for a considerable time. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. q2/2 New products include..an extended range of milling cutters. milling power n. ΚΠ 1852 De Bow's Rev. May 526 The milling power of the city is large, there being twenty mills with 58 run of burrs. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 540 Running water, frequently affording excellent milling power. milling tool n. ΚΠ 1851 Sci. Amer. 26 Apr. 254 List of patent claims... To John Buckingham & J. H. Baird, of Watertown, Conn., (assignors to The Scovill Manufacturing Co.), for improved Milling Tool. 1876 J. Rose Compl. Pract. Machinist xvi. 303 One of the main advantages of milling-tools is that the work will, in nearly all cases, be true. 1986 A. Francis New Technol. at Work iv. 69 The machine would..automatically..control the speed of rotation of the chuck of the lathe, or of the milling tool, and carry out the work while the operator stood by. milling trade n. ΚΠ 1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 589/2 I do not despair of seeing operations of this nature form a very important feature in the milling trade. 1865 Public Opinion 4 Mar. 218/2 Where are the milling and corn trades, formerly so prosperous in Ireland? 1987 18th-cent. Stud. 20 494 Kaplan gives definition to the forces working for and against modernization in the grain and milling trades. b. With the sense ‘suitable for being milled’. milling gold n. ΚΠ 1895 Daily News 3 Dec. 9/3 The average yield of free milling gold is about 1¼ ounce per ton. † milling-ore n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1870 J. C. Van Tramp Prairie & Rocky Mt. Adventures 643 The average cost of milling ores was $75 per ton. There were 36,000 tons of ore extracted in 1865. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 257 A large part of the ore is milling-ore. milling wheat n. ΚΠ 1883 Overland Monthly July 12 It is not as good milling wheat as other descriptions, but for crop purposes I consider it better. 1992 Farmers Guardian 7 Aug. 8/3 He says he will probably stick with feed wheat but may try growing some milling wheat. c. (In sense 3a.) † milling-match n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1811 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 37 The Royal Milling Match. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 49 Account of the Milling-match between Entellus and Dares. C2. milling frolic n. Canadian (in Nova Scotia) a family or community gathering at which cloth is milled, and singing and dancing take place (now only as a deliberately preserved tradition); a social event at which traditional songs from such a gathering are performed. ΚΠ 1936 G. Brinley Away to Cape Breton 199 When the Scotch Highland housewives of this countryside have woven thirty or forty yards of woolen cloth..the word goes 'round that there is to be a Milling frolic. 1948 N. MacNeil Highland Heart in Nova Scotia 57 When large bolts were available the family would have a ‘milling frolic’... The leader would start a long lilting song and as she did the ‘milling’ would begin, the girls along the sides joining lustily in the chorus, and all beating and thumping the cloth against the bench in time to the tune. 1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 18 Aug. 34 The Johnstown Milling Frolic... There will be Gaelic singing, bingo, a lunch served and a bake and craft sale as well as a square dance. milling machine n. a machine for milling; spec. (a) a rotary machine for fulling cloth; (b) Engineering a machine in which an object fixed to a carriage is subjected to the action of a rotating tool. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > milling milling machine1849 miller1890 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > machine milling machine1849 1849 Sci. Amer. 8 Sept. 406/3 But by the aid of a Milling Machine, half rotted hemp can be broken with great rapidity. 1861 J. H. Burton Let. 20 July in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1900) 4th Ser. I. 509 The most numerous class of machines now in the armory is that known as ‘milling machines’. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 661/2 The cloth to be fulled is well saturated with hot soap and water..and rubbed between rollers in the milling-machine while so heated and soaped. 1953 L. E. Doyle Metal Machining xii. 266 A milling machine must hold and rotate a cutter and have means to hold a workpiece and move it uniformly in at least one direction. 1962 W. J. Onions Wool xi. 245 In the operation of milling..fabrics are thickened and shrunk to a desired width..The operation is usually carried out in the rotary milling machine. 1991 Mech. Engin. Sept. 15/1 (advt.) Up to a staggering 90% reduction in power consumption for machining centers, NC lathes, milling machines, [etc.]. milling right n. now historical the right to operate a mill on another's land, esp. (French History and Canadian History) bestowed by a feudal seigneur; cf. mill right n. at mill n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1870 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 5 671 The exercise of a milling right on a river. 1982 Speculum 57 121 The minting authority had the recognized right to reserve a portion of the minted bullion for himself as a seignioriage, just as the holder of milling rights could reserve a portion of the flour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). millingn.² Brit. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mill v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mill v.² + -ing suffix¹. slang. Now rare. The action of robbing or stealing. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] theft688 stalec950 stealc1200 stoutha1300 stealing13.. stealtha1325 lifting1362 briberya1387 stoutheriec1440 larcenya1475 larcerya1500 conveyancea1529 thieving1530 bribing1533 larcinc1535 embezzling1540 embezzlement1548 thiefdom?1549 theftdom1566 bribering1567 milling1567 thievery1568 larcinry1634 panyarring1703 abduction1766 smugging1825 pickup1846 lurking1851 make1860 tea-leafing1899 snitching1933 lapping1950 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Eiiii^v They wyll send them into some house..to steale and robbe, which they call in their language, Milling of the ken. a1668 R. Rhodes Flora's Vagaries (1670) 16 We have all the Querks and Nicety of Roguery, Prigging,..Milling, all, all, Sir. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 76/2 Milling, stealing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). millingadj. Brit. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪlɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mill v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < mill v.¹ + -ing suffix². In each sense independently derived from senses of the verb (compare mill v.¹ 12, 16). †1. slang. Fighting, pugilistic. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective] scrambling1607 scuffling1610 milling1811 pugilant1882 bopping1958 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective] > fond of fighting battailousc1380 battaillerousc1480 light-fingered1557 rixosous1623 stavinga1625 pugnacious1642 milling1811 fighty1888 1811 Scourge 1 June 446 Several sturdy fellows, apparently of the milling tribe, began to square their elbows. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 189 Milling-cove, a pugilist. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iv. ii. 244 Two milling coves..Vere backed to fight for heavy stake;..But..Both kids agreed to play a cross. 2. Going round in a circle; moving aimlessly. Cf. mill v.¹ 12. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by locomotion > [adjective] > milling milling1895 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > that moves in particular way milling1895 1895 Harper's Mag. Aug. 345 The bedizened vaqueros plough their fiery broncos through the milling herds. 1919 L. F. Cody Mem. Buffalo Bill xiii. 289 Here the buffalo thundered along in their milling herd, while Will and the assembled cowboys circled them. 1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. viii. 99 The milling crowds of the cities. 1989 Righting Words 3 28/1 A flock of Broad-winged circling within a thermal is called..a boil in New York for the resemblance of the milling airborne birds to water bubbling on the stove. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1466n.²1567adj.1811
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