Mill

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1. Noun

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

2. Noun

A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

3. Noun

A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

4. Noun

A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

5. Noun

A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

6. Noun

A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

7. Noun

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

8. Noun

An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

9. Noun

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

10. Noun

A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

11. Noun

A pugilistic.

12. Noun

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

13. Noun

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

14. Noun

To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

15. Noun

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

16. Noun

To beat with the fists.

17. Noun

To roll into bars, as steel.

18. Verb

To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

19. Noun

a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Vocabulary classified under Engineering

20. Noun

machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
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