mill

Definitions

• A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
• 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.
• A machine for grinding and polishing.
• The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
• A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
• A building housing such a plant.
• (figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
• (figurative) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
• (informal) An engine.
• (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
• (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
• (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
• (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
• A milling cutter.
• A treadmill.
• (CB radio) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.