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noun Milling n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.
verb Mill v. t. (past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling) 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) 6.To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
Mill v. t. 1.(Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 2.To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
Mill v. i. (Zool.) 1.To swim under water; said of air-breathing creatures. 2.To undergo hulling, as maize. 3.To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; usually used with around. "The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius." 4.To swim suddenly in a new direction; said of whales. 5.To take part in a mill; to box. (Cant)
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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