miller Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
    Glenn Miller; Alton Glenn Miller.
  2. noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
    Henry Miller; Henry Valentine Miller.
  3. noun United States playwright (1915-2005)
    Arthur Miller.
  4. noun someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
  5. noun machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
    milling machine.
  6. noun any of various moths that have powdery wings
    moth miller.

WordNet

Mill"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
  2. A milling machine.
  3. (Zoöl.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. Prov. Eng.

Webster 1913