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What does mill mean?

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Noun
  1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  3. 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.
  4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
  5. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  6. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  7. A building housing such a plant.
  8. (figuratively) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
  9. (figuratively) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
  10. (informal) An engine.
  11. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
  12. (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.
  13. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  14. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  15. A milling cutter.
  16. A treadmill.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  2. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (around) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  5. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
  6. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
  13. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (trading card games) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
  16. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
Noun
  1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Noun
  1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
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