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milling |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mill \Mill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milled}; p. pr & vb n. {Milling}.] [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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Milling \Mill"ing\, 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: milling adj : moving about or around "the milling crowd" [syn: {shuffling}] n : the corrugated edge of a coin
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