Barker's mill |
A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
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Mill |
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. |
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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. |
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Mill |
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
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An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
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A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
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Mill |
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
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A pugilistic. |
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Mill |
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. |
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To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. |
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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. |
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To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. |
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To beat with the fists. |
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To roll into bars, as steel. |
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Mill |
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. |
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Mill-sixpence |
A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561). |
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