noun. The act or process of grinding, especially grinding grain into flour or meal.

noun. The operation of cutting, shaping, finishing, or working products manufactured in a mill.

noun. The ridges cut on the edges of coins.

noun. The process of grinding, or subjecting materials to the action of the machinery of a grinding-mill. Specifically

noun. The manufacture of cereals into flour or meal.

noun. The operation of upsetting the edge of a coin-blank to form the milled edge; also, the operation of putting the series of small transverse ridges and furrows on the edge of an otherwise finished coin, or on a screw-head to adapt it for easy turning with the fingers. See milled screw, under screw.

noun. A method of shaping metals in a milling-machine, by passing the metal under a serrated revolving cylinder or cutter

noun. In metal-working, a method of ornamenting metallic surfaces by treatment in a lathe with ribbed tools, which produce ridged surfaces.

noun. A method of softening and opening the pores of hides by placing them with some tan-liquor in a wooden drum which is caused to revolve.

noun. The felting or fulling of a cloth to thicken it.

noun. In pottery, the operation of grinding and mixing the slip.

noun. A thrashing; a fight; a beating.

noun. The act of playing around in a circle: said of a school of fish. Also called cart-wheeling.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.

noun. a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.

noun. a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.

noun. 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.

noun. The notches around the edge of a coin, placed there during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed. Removing metal from a coin was common practice during earlier times when coins made of precious metals circulated.

verb. Present participle of mill.

noun. corrugated edge of a coin