The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[=i], mul[=i]n, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour, and cf. Moline.]
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone 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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
(Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
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(Mining)
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. See Illust. under Milling.
A pugilistic encounter. [Cant]
--R. D. Blackmore.Short for Treadmill.
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
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A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1] or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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.
Gin mill, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink.
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.
Wikipedia
A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Mill Pond, also known unofficially as Agawam Mill Pond, is a pond in Wareham, Massachusetts. The pond is located northwest of Union Pond, west and north of Spectacle Pond, west of Sandy Pond, and southwest of Glen Charlie Pond. The Agawam River runs through the pond. Route 25 runs through the southwestern part of the pond, and the Exit 2 off-ramp from Route 25 eastbound lies along the shore en route to Glen Charlie Road, which runs along the pond's eastern shore.
Mill Pond is a pond in Duxbury, Massachusetts in the village of Island Creek. The pond is located south of Island Creek Pond. Island Creek runs through the pond. Route 3A runs along the southern shore of the pond. The water quality is impaired due to non-native aquatic plants in the pond. The fishway at the Mill Pond dam has deteriorated and no longer functions.
A mill pond is any body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Mill Pond may also refer to:
- Mill Pond (Wareham, Massachusetts)
- Mill Pond (Duxbury, Massachusetts)
- Mill Pond (Grandin, Missouri), a place on the NRHP in Missouri
Usage examples of "mill pond".
The enormous processing room lay at the end of it: the bull chain leading from the mill pond, up feeding shoots, into the building.
Just a touch of wind ruffled the mill pond and the hanging green willow curtains.
The mill pond stored water from high tides and released it to drive the wheel at a measured pace.
The smith flicked the reins and eased the mare uphill again through the knee-deep slush and toward the dark wall of the mill pond that extended from the canyon rock face on his right to the hillside slope a hundred cubits or more to his left.
I should have followed every rule and never let Eaith and Winnie help that first day at Mill Pond.