mill¹ /mil/

1. A machine for grinding by crushing between hard, rough surfaces, or for more or less similar operations
2. A building or factory where corn, wheat, etc, is ground, or manufacture of some kind is carried on, such as spinning and weaving, paper-making, sawing of timber
3. A place or institution that mass-produces anything, esp in an impersonal or factory-like manner (figurative)
4. A snuffbox (also mull), orig one with grinding apparatus (Scot)
5. A boxing match (old sl)

1. To grind
2. To press, stamp, roll, cut into bars, full, furrow the edges of, or otherwise treat in a mill
3. To froth up
4. To beat severely with the fists (old sl)
5. To turn over in the mind, to mull (with over)

1. To move round in a curve
2. To practise the business of a miller
3. To box (old sl)
4. (often with about or around) (of a crowd) to move in an aimless or confused manner

millˈable adjective

milled adjective

1. Prepared by a grinding-mill or a coining-press
2. Transversely grooved on the edge (as a coin or screw-head)
3. Treated by machinery, esp smoothed by calendering rollers in a paper mill

millˈer noun

1. A person who owns or works a mill
2. A milling machine

millˈing noun

1. The business of a miller
2. The act of passing anything through a mill
3. The act of fulling cloth
4. The process of turning and ridging the edge of a screw-head or coin
5. A gruelling
6. Aimless or confused movement of a crowd

millocˈracy noun (historical)

A governing class of mill owners, or their rule

millˈocrat noun

millˈboard noun

Stout pasteboard, used esp in binding books

millˈdam noun

1. The dam of a millpond
2. A millpond
3. A millrace or tail-race (Scot)

miller's dog same as tope³

miller's thumb noun

The bullhead

millˈ-eye noun

The opening by which meal comes from a mill

mill girl noun

millˈhand noun

A worker in a mill

millˈ-head noun (mining)

Ore accepted for processing after removal of waste rock and detritus

millˈ-horse noun

A horse that turns a mill

milling cutter noun

A hardened steel disc or cylinder with teeth on the periphery and faces, used in a milling machine for grooving, slotting, etc

milling grade noun (mining)

Ore sufficiently rich, in eg metal, to repay the cost of processing

milling machine noun

A machine-tool for shaping metal, with rotating cutters

mill owner noun

millˈpond noun

1. A pond to hold water for driving a mill (proverbially smooth)
2. The Atlantic Ocean (facetious)

millˈrace noun

The current of water that turns a millwheel, or the channel in which it runs

millˈrind noun

An iron support fitted across the hole in an upper millstone

millˈrun noun

1. A millrace
2. A test of the quality or mineral content of ore or rock by milling it

millˈscale noun

Scale formed on iron or steel during heating for forging

mill-sixˈpence noun (Shakespeare)

A milled sixpence

millˈstone noun

1. Either of the two stones used in a mill for grinding corn
2. A very heavy burden (figurative)

millstone grit noun

1. A hard, gritty sandstone suitable for millstones
2. (with cap) a series of grits, sandstones, shales, underlying the British Coal Measures

millˈstream noun

The stream of water that turns a millwheel

millˈtail noun

A tailrace

millˈ-tooth noun

A molar

millˈwheel noun

A water wheel used for driving a mill

millˈwork noun

1. The machinery of a mill
2. The planning and putting up of machinery in mills

millˈworker noun

millˈwright noun

A wright or mechanic who builds and repairs mills

gastric mill

In Malacostraca, a digestive organ, sometimes known as the stomach, provided with muscles and ossicles for the trituration of food

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