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. |
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Fluted (imp. & p. p.) of Flute |
Fluted (a.) Thin |
Fluted (a.) Decorated with flutes |
Grind (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth |
Grind (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction |
Grind (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions |
Grind (v. t.) To study hard for examination. |
Grind (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something |
Grind (v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction |
Grind (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction |
Grind (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction |
Grind (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service |
Grind (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. |
Grind (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation |
Grind (n.) A hard student |
Mill (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill (n.) 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 |
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill (n.) 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 |
Mill (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
Mill (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill (n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill (n.) 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 |
Mill (n.) To pass through a fulling mill |
Mill (n.) To beat with the fists. |
Mill (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
Mill (v. i.) To swim under water |
Mill-cake (n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence |
Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
Walk-mill (n.) A fulling mill. |
Water mill () A mill whose machinery is moved by water |
grind mill pulverization pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
drudgery plodding grind donkeywork | hard monotonous routine work |
gizzard ventriculus gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
barrel organ grind organ hand organ hurdy gurdy hurdy-gurdy street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
factory mill manufacturing plant manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
mill grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
millwheel mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
paper mill | a mill where paper is manufactured |
pepper mill pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
public house pub saloon pothouse gin mill taphouse | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms, often provides light meals |
quartz battery quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
stamp mill stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
straight flute straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
textile mill | a factory for making textiles |
water mill | a mill powered by a water wheel |
grind | the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground, a coarse grind of coffee |
mill agent | the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership |
mill-girl | a girl who works in a mill |
mill-hand factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
swot grind nerd wonk dweeb | an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious |
Mill John Mill John Stuart Mill | English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (-) |
Mill James Mill | Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism, father of John Stuart Mill (-) |
grind mash crunch bray comminute | reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading, grind the spices in a mortar, mash the garlic |
mill | grind with a mill, mill grain |
cram grind away drum bone up swot get up mug up swot up bone | study intensively, as before an exam, I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam |
mill | roll out (metal) with a rolling machine |
grate grind | make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together, grate one's teeth in anger |
mill | produce a ridge around the edge of, mill a coin |
crunch cranch craunch grind | press or grind with a crushing noise |
grind | shape or form by grinding, grind lenses for glasses and cameras |
grind | created by grinding, grind designs into the glass bowl |
grind out crank out | produce in a routine or monotonous manner, We have to crank out publications in order to receive funding |
grind to a halt get stuck bog down mire | be unable to move further, The car bogged down in the sand |
mill mill about mill around | move about in a confused manner |
grind | dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced |
labor labour toil fag travail grind drudge dig moil | work hard, She was digging away at her math homework, Lexicographers drudge all day long |
tyrannize tyrannise grind down | rule a country as a tyrant |
d loiter lounge footle lollygag loaf lallygag hang around mess about tarry linger lurk mill about mill around a | be about, The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square, Who is this man that is hanging around the department? |
run-of-the-mill run-of-the-mine mine run unexceptional | not special in any way, run-of-the-mill boxing, your run-of-the-mine college graduate, a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career |