A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
My grandfather worked in a mill.
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 cider mill; a cane mill
A machine for grinding and polishing.
a lapidary mill
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 steel mill
A building housing such a plant.
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.
An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
An engine.
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.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
A treadmill.
A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
to mill flour
To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
(followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
To cause to mill, or circle around.
to mill cattle
(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
To beat; to pound.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
To undergo hulling.
This maize mills well.
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
(plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml
A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
(trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
(Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.