Word Finder - milling

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To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

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to mill flour

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To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

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To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

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(followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

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I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.

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To cause to mill, or circle around.

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to mill cattle

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(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

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(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.

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To beat; to pound.

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To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

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To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

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To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

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To undergo hulling.

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This maize mills well.

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To take part in a fistfight; to box.

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To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

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(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

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(trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.

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(Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

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A grinding process using a mill.

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The series of 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.

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A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.

There were people milling about, most appearing as lost and confused as he felt.

She joined crowds of people milling through downtown Crystal City to see the Christmas displays and shop.

It was my dream situation - a house full of cameras, milling around playing the big momma.

The tools they operate include lathes, cutters, milling machines, grinders, borers and machines that combine several of these functions.

Gas Works K 1152 x 864 248K Workers in hard hats and fluorescent yellow waistcoats are milling about in front of their temporary accommodation.

In the engineering industries milling machines constitute a very important class of machine tools, the characteristic of which is that rotary cutters are employed for shaping the metal (see Tools).

Schwartz special milling process preserves the flavor - giving volatile oils.

In the United States of America the term " milling " or " milled " is applied to the raised edge on the face of the coin; this is known in the British mint as " marking " (see Mint).

The bin which holds grain for milling into flour has been modified to be vermin proof in the interests of current standards of hygiene.

You can hardly watch Derby coverage at Churchill Downs without seeing at least a dozen horse racing enthusiasts milling around with the distinctive Mint Julep in their hands, and with good reason.

There are many different types of grinders available that are suitable for milling wheat.

When all three parts of the grain (the germ, bran, and endosperm) are present in their original proportions after milling, the grain is still a whole grain.

The milling of wood siding allows the installer to hang it horizontally or vertically.

Over 17 plants were established all over Europe, Canada and the United States, each specializing in cotton production, denim milling and apparel manufacturing.

Fair trade companies ensure that people who work growing, harvesting and milling the cotton, as well as those who produce the clothing, are paid a living wage.

By sprouting the grain and then milling the sprouted seeds, the final product allows you to bypass the grain's natural self-defense against being consumed.

Kialla Pure Foods is an organic milling company based in Australia.

All of the vitamins and minerals lost through the milling process are present within the sprouted bread products.

Often, those present greater challenges, because both must be immensely comfortable to withstand a night of dancing and milling around.

The principal industries are, the metallurgic and textile industries in all their branches, milling, brewing and chemicals; paper, leather and silk; cloth, objets de luxe and millinery; physical and musical instruments; sugar, tobacco factories and foodstuffs.

There has been some development in the manufacture of agricultural machinery and implements, vehicles, pianos and furniture, and some older industries, such as tanning leather and the manufacture of saddles and harness, the milling of wheat and Indian corn, distilling, soap-making, &c. At Guanta there is a factory for the manufacture of patent fuel from Naricual coal and asphalt.

It has important textile, malt and sugar industries, distilling, brewing and milling, manufactures of agricultural implements and lucifer matches.

This gives Canadian wheat excellent milling properties, and enables the millers to turn out flour uniform in quality and of high grade as to keeping properties.

There is a considerable textile industry, together with the manufacture of shoes, machinery and milling.

Other important branches of industry are chemicals at Hruschau and Petrowitz; sugar refineries, milling, brewing and liqueurs.

The chief industries are tanning, shipbuilding, milling, paper-making, rope-making and brick-making.

Around Zwickau there are productive coal-fields, and milling for metals is carried on near Freiberg.

Budapest is actually one of the greatest milling centres in the world, possessing a number of magnificent establishments, fitted with machinery invented and manufactured in the city.

Bekescsaba possesses several large milling establishments, while the weaving of hemp and the production of hemp-linen is largely pursued as a home industry.

Brooklyn is also an important place for the milling of coffee and spices (the 1905 product was valued at $15,274,092), the building of small boats, and the manufacture of foundry and machine shop products, malt liquors, barrels, shoes, chemicals, paints, cordage, twine, and hosiery and other knitted goods.

After the lumber and timber industry ranked in 1905 the manufacture of cotton-seed oil and cake ($4,939,919) and flour and grist milling.

Briix is situated in the centre of a region very rich in lignite deposits and has, besides, important sugar, iron and hardware, distilling, brewing and milling industries.

Great Britain is now her best customer, and Brazil takes a small quantity for milling mixtures.

Its most important manufactures are tobacco, machinery, iron, furniture, textiles and milling.

Milling is practised mainly in isolated localities near the mine producing the ore.

As any given region is opened up by railways, cheapening transportation, milling is apt to give way to smelting.

When the multure tax, a tax upon milling grain, was imposed in Italy many years ago, it was found that no corresponding increase took place in the price of flour and bread.

The milling industry is, next to the docks, the chief feature of Bombay's commercial success.

The chief milling centres are Port Elizabeth and the Cape district.

Among other industries that have largely contributed to the welfare of the town are dyeing and bleaching, brass and iron founding, tanning, machine-making, brewing and distilling, milling, rope-making and the making of soap and candles,while the collieries in the immediate vicinity are numerous and flourishing.

With the modern processes of milling, the harder wheats are preferred, for they make the best flour for bakers' use; and in North America the spring wheats are, as a rule, harder than the winter wheats.

Then follow the petroleum refineries and kindred industries, saw-mills and the fabrication of various wood articles, paper and milling.

Nebraska wheat, like that of Kansas, combines for milling the splendid qualities of winter wheat with those characteristic of grain grown on the edge of the semi-arid West; flour and grist-mill products were valued at $7,794,130 in 1900 and at $12,190,303 in 1905.

The standard collets could be used when stub milling was undertaken - and the horizontal arbor was provided with hardened and ground spacers.

Did farmers tell you where their nearest homes for milling wheat & malting barley are?

With all the stalls and people milling around driver did a good job, and achieved a zero body count.

Apparently it is classed as a ' jig borer ' tho to all intents it's simply a vertical milling machine.

Material etching can be carried out by Ion Beam Milling, reactive ion etching and wet chemical etching.

Wet milling is used to obtain oil, gluten, starch and starch hydrolysates.

The drive to the milling machinery returned to the wheelhouse via a belt drive that came in through a hatch in the roof.