mill

1. (noun) A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 2. (noun) The building housing such a grinding apparatus. 3. (noun) 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. 4. (noun) A machine for grinding and polishing. 5. (noun) The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. 6. (noun) A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. 7. (noun) A building housing such a plant. 8. (noun) 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. 9. (noun) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised 10. (noun) An engine. 11. (noun) A boxing match, fistfight. 12. (noun) (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. 13. (noun) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. 14. (noun) A passage underground through which ore is shot. 15. (noun) A milling cutter. 16. (noun) A treadmill. 17. (noun) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received. 18. (verb) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. 19. (verb) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. 20. (verb) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). 21. (verb) (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion. 22. (verb) To cause to mill, or circle around. 23. (verb) (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater. 24. (verb) (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction. 25. (verb) To beat; to pound. 26. (verb) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 27. (verb) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. 28. (verb) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. 29. (verb) To undergo hulling. 30. (verb) To take part in a fistfight; to box. 31. (verb) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 32. (verb) (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.