Meaning

• A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

  "Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill."

• The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

  "My grandfather worked in a mill."

• 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.

  "a cider mill; a cane mill"

• A machine for grinding and polishing.

  "a lapidary mill"

• The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.

• A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

  "a steel mill"

• A building housing such a plant.

• An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

• An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

• An engine.

• A boxing match, fistfight.

• (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.

• An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

• A passage underground through which ore is shot.

• A milling cutter.

• A treadmill.

• A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

Meaning

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

  "to mill flour"

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

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

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

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

• To cause to mill, or circle around.

  "to mill cattle"

• (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

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

• To beat; to pound.

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

• To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

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

• To undergo hulling.

  "This maize mills well."

• To take part in a fistfight; to box.

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

• (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.