9. A pugilistic. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore. Edge mill, Flint mill, etc.
See under Edge, Flint, etc.
— Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from
a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
— Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.
— Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a
mill.
— Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.
— Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
— Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel,
or the current of water which drives the wheel.
— Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning
it, or the channel in which the water flows.
— Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.
— Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.
— Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing
grain between rollers.
— Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.
— To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline
necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or
to a certain mental state.
MILL
Mill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] Etym:
[See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]
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] Thackeray.
6. To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
MILL
Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.)
Defn: To swim under water; — said of air-breathing creatures.