| mill | |
| 1. n. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. | |
| Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill. | |
| 2. n. The building housing such a grinding apparatus. | |
| My grandfather worked in a mill. | |
| 3. n. 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 | |
| 4. n. A machine for grinding and polishing. | |
| a lapidary mill | |
| 5. n. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. | |
| 6. n. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. | |
| a steel mill | |
| 7. n. A building housing such a plant. | |
| 8. n. (figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc. | |
| 9. n. (figurative) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised | |
| 10. n. (informal) An engine. | |
| 11. n. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight. | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. | |
| 14. n. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot. | |
| 15. n. A milling cutter. | |
| 16. n. A treadmill. | |
| 17. v. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. | |
| to mill flour | |
| 18. v. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. | |
| 19. v. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, 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. | |
| 21. v. To cause to mill, or circle around. | |
| to mill cattle | |
| 22. v. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater. | |
| 23. v. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound. | |
| 25. v. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. | |
| 26. v. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. | |
| 27. v. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. | |
| 28. v. (intransitive) To undergo hulling. | |
| This maize mills well. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box. | |
| 30. v. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. | |
| 31. v. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary. | |
| 32. n. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. | |
| 33. n. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. | |
| 34. n. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. | |
| 35. v. (transitive, trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile. | |
| 36. v. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand. | |
| 37. n. (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck. | |
| 38. n. (trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck. | |
