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miller

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mill⋅er

[mil-er]
–noun
1. a person who owns or operates a mill, esp. a mill that grinds grain into flour.
2. milling machine.
3. any moth, esp. of the family Noctuidae, having wings that appear powdery.

Origin:
1325–75; ME millere, assimilated var. of milnere, equiv. to milne mill 1 + -ere -er 1

Mill⋅er

[mil-er]
–noun
1. Arthur, 1915–2005, U.S. playwright and novelist.
2. Glenn, 1904–44, U.S. dance bandleader and trombonist.
3. Henry, 1891–1980, U.S. novelist.
4. Joa⋅quin [wah-keen] , (Cincinnatus Heine Miller), 1841–1913, U.S. poet.
5. Joe (Joseph or Josias Miller), 1684–1738, English actor, after whom Joe Miller's Jestbook was named.
6. Merton Howard, 1923–2000, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
7. William, 1782–1849, U.S. religious leader: founder of the Adventist Church.

milling machine

–noun
a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
Also called miller.


Origin:
1875–80
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mill·er   (mĭl'ər)   
n.  
  1. One who works in, operates, or owns a mill, especially a grain mill.

  2. A milling machine.

  3. Any of various moths whose wings and bodies have a powdery appearance.

Mil·ler   (mĭl'ər)   
American playwright whose works include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).
Miller,   (Alton)
American bandleader and composer whose orchestra was one of the most popular groups of the big-band era.
Miller, Henry Valentine 1891-1980.  
American writer whose novels Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939) were banned in the United States because of their sexual content.
Miller, Joaquin Pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller. 1837-1913.  
American poet whose work is based on his adventures in the West. His collections include Specimens (1868) and Joaquin et al. (1869).
Miller, Merton Howard 1923-2000.  
American economist. He shared a 1990 Nobel Prize for contributions to financial economics.
Miller, William 1782-1849.  
American religious leader who preached that Christ's Second Coming would take place in 1843. Miller's followers later organized the Advent Christian Church (1860).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

miller 
1362 (attested as a surname from 1327), from mill (n.1). The O.E. word was mylnweard, lit. "mill-keeper" (Millward attested as a surname from 1279).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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