Results for mill

Definitions of mill:

part of speech: verb transitive

To grind very fine in a machine; groove or stamp, as the edges of coins; full ( cloth): roll into bars, as metal.

part of speech: noun

A machine in which corn and other substances are ground into meal or flour; a machine for spinning, weaving, sawing, or for performing other operations; the building in which such operations are carried on.

part of speech: noun

A machine for grinding grain or other substances; a manufactory; one- tenth of a cent.

part of speech: verb

To grind; to press or stamp, as the edges of coins; to full, as cloth.

part of speech: noun

In the U. S., an imaginary money of account, the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

part of speech: noun

A machine for grinding any substance, as grain, by crushing it between two hard, rough surfaces: a place where grinding or manufacture of some kind is carried on.

Usage examples for mill:

• How long is it since the mill was used? "Queen Hildegarde", Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

• The mill boat, beyond all doubt- and nobody in it! "The Guilty River", Wilkie Collins

• But there's the mill "The Boy With the U. S. Foresters", Francis Rolt-Wheeler

• Our point is that in 1831 Mill was in search of a method of reasoning in social questions. "Logic, Inductive and Deductive", William Minto