Milling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of grinding, especially grinding grain into flour or meal.
  • n. The operation of cutting, shaping, finishing, or working products manufactured in a mill.
  • n. The ridges cut on the edges of coins.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The 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.
  • v. Present participle of mill.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See mill.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The process of grinding, or subjecting materials to the action of the machinery of a grinding-mill. Specifically
  • n. The manufacture of cereals into flour or meal.
  • n. The operation of upsetting the edge of a coin-blank to form the milled edge; also, the operation of putting the series of small transverse ridges and furrows on the edge of an otherwise finished coin, or on a screw-head to adapt it for easy turning with the fingers. See milled screw, under screw.
  • n. A method of shaping metals in a milling-machine, by passing the metal under a serrated revolving cylinder or cutter
  • n. In metal-working, a method of ornamenting metallic surfaces by treatment in a lathe with ribbed tools, which produce ridged surfaces.
  • n. A method of softening and opening the pores of hides by placing them with some tan-liquor in a wooden drum which is caused to revolve.
  • n. The felting or fulling of a cloth to thicken it.
  • n. In pottery, the operation of grinding and mixing the slip.
  • n. A thrashing; a fight; a beating.
  • n. The act of playing around in a circle: said of a school of fish. Also called cart-wheeling.
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  • n. corrugated edge of a coin
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    edge   
    Cross Reference
    low milling    high milling   
    Variant
    mill   
    Verb Stem
    mill   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Trilling    billing    chilling    dilling    distilling   
     
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