Mill: Definition and part of speech

Mill

  1. n. A pugilistic.
  2. n. A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
  3. n. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
  4. 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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
  5. n. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  6. n. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
  7. n. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
  8. n. A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
  9. n. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  10. n. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  11. 1n. 1 A pugilistic.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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