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verb

Mill v. t. (past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling)

1.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

2.

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

3.

To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

4.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5.

To beat with the fists. (Cant)

6.

To roll into bars, as steel.

To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.

Mill v. t.

1.

(Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

2.

To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

Mill v. i. (Zool.)

1.

To swim under water; said of air-breathing creatures.

2.

To undergo hulling, as maize.

3.

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; usually used with around. "The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius."

4.

To swim suddenly in a new direction; said of whales.

5.

To take part in a mill; to box. (Cant)

adjective

Milled adj.

1.

Having been subjected to some process of milling.

2.

Specifically: Having multiple fine grooves on the rim, in the direction from obverse to reverse; of coins. Coins of silver and gold were milled to make it impossible for uncrupulous persons to shave small pieces from the edge without detection.

Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill.

Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

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Etymology of 'Milled'

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"Milled" Quotes from Famous Books

... view, Fig. 18), one of which opens the valve and the other closes it. The several pairs of pawls are hung on a common shaft which receives a rocking motion from a crank driven from a worm and worm-wheel by the turbine shaft. The cross-heads have notches milled in the side in which the pawls engage to open or close the valve, this engagement being determined by what are called shield-plates, A (Fig. 18), which are controlled by the governor. These plates are set, one a little ahead of the other, to obtain successive opening ...

— Steam Turbines - A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of - the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers • Hubert E. Collins

... of the poor compelled them to agree to any batta or exchange rather than suffer delay. This was apparently the origin of the 'Shroff-marked rupees,' familiar to readers of the Treasury Manual; and the line in a Bhat song, 'The English have made current the kaldar (milled) rupee,' is thus seen to ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... of England." The directors, finding it impossible to procure silver enough to pay every claim, had recourse to an expedient. They made a call of 20 per cent. on the proprietors, and thus raised a sum enabling them to pay every applicant 15 per cent. in milled money on what was due to him, and they returned him his note, after making a minute upon it that part had been paid. A few notes thus marked, says Macaulay, are still preserved among the archives of the Bank, as memorials of that terrible year. The alternations were frightful. The ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... were first used as money, they were weighed and their purity was determined by testing. This invited fraud.] For convenience in business transactions, these are coined of certain sizes. To discourage the mutilation of coins for sinister purposes, they are "milled" on the edges, and the stamp covers each face so that the metal could hardly be cut off without the coin ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... under late telegraphic advice from London, Lanyard held himself well in hand: the first sign of intent to hinder him would prove the signal for a spectacular demonstration of the ungentle art of not getting caught with the goods on. And for twenty seconds, while the crowd milled slowly through the narrow exit, he was as near to betraying himself as he had ever been—nearer, for he had marked down the point on Roddy's jaw where his first blow would fall, and just where to plant a coup-de-savate most surely to incapacitate the ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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