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   mill

   /mɪl/

   noun

   • 1. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. Similar factoryplantprocessing plantworksworkshopshopfoundryindustrial centreindustrial unit
   • ▪ a piece of machinery for grinding grain: "a direct steam-driven flour mill"
   • ▪ a domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder: "a pepper mill" Similar grinderquerncrusher
   • 2. a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process: "a steel mill"
   • ▪ a piece of manufacturing machinery.
   • 3. an engine. informal
   • 4. a boxing match or a fist fight. informal, dated

   verb

   • 1. grind (something) in a mill: "hard wheats are easily milled into white flour"
   • 2. cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool: "in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings"
   • ▪ produce regular ribbed markings on the edge of (a coin) as a protection against illegal clipping: "gold and silver coins were milled in order to prevent unscrupulous persons from shaving off the edges"
   • 3. (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass: "tourists were milling about in the lobby"
   • 4. thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it: "ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric"

   Word Origin Old Englishmylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola ‘grindstone, mill’, from molere ‘to grind’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. millable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • M

     3

   • I

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

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