Crossword clues for rolling mill
rolling mill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rolling \Roll"ing\, a.
Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
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Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. [U.S.] Rolling bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. Rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship. --J. Bourne. Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand. Rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact. Rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc. Rolling press.
A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers.
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A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.
Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.
Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily.
--R. H. Dana, Jr.
WordNet
n. steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars
Usage examples of "rolling mill".
The Bessemer converter to make cast iron into steel took many thousands of man-hours, as did the rolling mill that made sheetmetal and the stamping line that pressed out helmets, breast plates, shoulder cops, and the other twenty-seven pieces it took to cover a man.
A rolling mill where a huge order of government armament material was being rushed to completion shut down.
This was an older forge, tucked behind the rolling mill and the gear cutters, both unused for the time.
We'll let you two take the place of the rolling mill, if you need the work.
The keel plates have already been passed through the rolling mill.
We made a rolling mill to make sheet brass, and some small punch presses to use the sheetmetal.
We know how to make the rolling mill to roll the iron plate to make the boiler .
We know how to make the lathe to turn the rolls to make the rolling mill.
But about that time he had become tired of it, he said, and he sold it off and did a lot more work in the yard and looked bored as hell until the strike was over and he went back to work and got killed in an accident in the rolling mill.
Further back, bevond the soaking pits for the ingots, the machinery of the rolling mill slammed and hummed, long shafts of hot steel stretching and forming.
The mini mill operated twenty-four hours a day, melting down old steel to reforge it to slabs which were sent upriver via barge to the rolling mill at Dravosburg.
Mine owners, smelter owners, hammer mill and rolling mill owners, covering the process, top to bottom.