Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc. -- Mill bar
(Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or
puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill
cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water
employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing
millstones. -- Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. --
Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the
current of water which drives the wheel. -- Mill tail, the water which
flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the
water flows. -- Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth. - - Mill wheel,
the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Roller mill, a
mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.
-- Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. -- To
go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline
necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to
a certain mental state.
Mill (ml), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled (mld); 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.