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.
(figuratively) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
(figuratively) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
“These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city.”
“I used a mill to grind the coffee beans into a fine powder.”
The series of notches around the edge of a coin, placed there during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed. Removing metal from a coin was common practice during earlier times when coins made of precious metals circulated.
A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
mill
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
“These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city.”
“I used a mill to grind the coffee beans into a fine powder.”
“These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city.”
“I used a mill to grind the coffee beans into a fine powder.”
millstream
The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.