mill : Idioms & Phrases

• all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. Colloq.

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Bark"er's mill`

Etymology

From Dr. Barker, the inventor.

Definitions

1. A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

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• a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.

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• noun mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider
  

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• a mill in which cider is made.

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• a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.

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• noun a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans
  coffee grinder.
  

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• noun a textile mill for making cotton textiles
  

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Craze"-mill`, Craz"ing-mill` noun (Also<

• Craze-mill
• Crazing-mill

)

Etymology

See 1st Craze.

Definitions

1. A mill for grinding tin ore.

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• a mill driven by a current wheel.

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• . See Roller mill.

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Dou"ble-milled` adjective

Definitions

1. Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

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• a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill.

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• etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc.

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• a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

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• . (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.

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• a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured.

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• . (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. Knight.

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• noun a mill for grinding grain into flour
  

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• a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

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Free"-mill`ing adjective

Definitions

1. Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond.

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• a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.

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• noun thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
  gizzard; ventriculus.
  

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• . See Gig, 4.

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• noun tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
  taphouse; public house; pub; pothouse; saloon.
  

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• (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.

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• . (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe.

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• milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.
• a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.

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• noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
  Mill.
  

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• noun English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
  John Mill; Mill.
  

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• noun English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
  John Mill; Mill.
  

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• a machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.

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• a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.

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• milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.
• a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings.

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• verb be about
  loaf; footle; mess about; lallygag; linger; lollygag; lurk; tarry; mill about; hang around; lounge; loiter.
  
  • The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
  • Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
• verb move about in a confused manner
  mill; mill about.
  

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• noun the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership
  

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• verb be about
  loaf; footle; mess about; lallygag; linger; lollygag; lurk; tarry; mill about; hang around; lounge; loiter.
  
  • The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
  • Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
• verb move about in a confused manner
  mill; mill about.
  

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• (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.

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• slag from a puddling furnace.

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• the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.

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• a pick for dressing millstones.

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• a pond that supplies the water for a mill.

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• the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.

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• the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.

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• a grinder or molar tooth.

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• noun water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill
  millwheel.
  

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• the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.

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Mill"-cake` noun

Definitions

1. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

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• noun a girl who works in a mill
  

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• noun a workman in a mill or factory
  factory worker.
  

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Mill"-sixpence noun

Definitions

1. A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

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• noun machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
  miller.
  

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• noun machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
  mill; grinder.
  

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• a coining press.

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• a mill for shaping timber.

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• noun a mill where paper is manufactured
  

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• noun a mill for grinding pepper
  pepper grinder.
  

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• a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies.

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• the process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling.

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• a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

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• noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
  quartz battery.
  

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• noun United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)
  Mills.
  

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• a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.

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• noun steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars
  

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• a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc.

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• adjective satellite not special in any way
  run-of-the-mine; mine run; unexceptional.
  
  • run-of-the-mill boxing
  • your run-of-the-mine college graduate
  • a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career

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• a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

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• . (a) A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like . (b) A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder.

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• a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.

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• a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

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• noun a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps
  stamp mill.
  

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• (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.
• (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore.

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• noun a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps
  stamp mill.
  

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• (Mining), a stamp mill.

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• noun a factory where steel is made
  steel plant; steelworks; steel factory.
  

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• . (a) (Firearms) See Wheel lock, under Wheel. (b) A mill which has steel grinding surfaces . (c) A mill where steel is manufactured.

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• a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed.

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• noun a factory for making textiles
  

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• (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.

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• . (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water.

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Tilt"-mill` noun

Definitions

1. A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

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• to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

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• to make it frothy, as by churning.

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• a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work.

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Walk"-mill` noun

Etymology

Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.

Definitions

1. A fulling mill. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

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• a machine for warping yarn.

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• noun a mill powered by a water wheel
  

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Wa"ter mill`

Definitions

1. A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.

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• a mill grinding and preparing woad.

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