milling

[mil-ing] Origin

mill·ing

[mil-ing]
noun
1.
an act or instance of subjecting something to the operation of a mill.
2.
an act or process of producing plane or shaped surfaces with a milling machine.
3.
Coining.
a.
an act or process of making a raised edge on a coin or the like.
b.
an act or process of making narrow, radial grooves on such a raised edge.
c.
a number of grooves so made.
4.
Slang. a beating or thrashing.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English. See mill1, -ing1

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mill

1[mil]
noun
1.
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
2.
a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.
3.
a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.
4.
any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill.
5.
any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.
EXPAND
6.
a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as if produced in a factory: a divorce mill; a diploma mill.
7.
Machinery. a cutter on a milling machine.
8.
a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate.
9.
Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore.
10.
Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
11.
to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.
12.
Coining.
a.
to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like).
b.
to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like).
13.
to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate.
14.
Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome.
verb (used without object)
15.
to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle (often followed by about or around).
16.
Slang. to fight or box.
17.
through the mill, Informal. undergoing or having undergone severe difficulties, trials, etc., especially with an effect on one's health, personality, or character: He's really been through the mill since his wife's death.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English milne, mille (noun), Old English myl(e)n < Late Latin molīna, noun use of feminine of molīnus of a mill, equivalent to Latin mol(a) mill + -īnus -ine1


15. crowd, wander, roam, teem.

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milling (ˈmɪlɪŋ)
 
n
1.  the act or process of grinding, cutting, pressing, or crushing in a mill
2.  the vertical grooves or fluting on the edge of a coin, etc
3.  (in W North America) a method of halting a stampede of cattle by turning the leaders in a wide arc until the herd turns in upon itself in a tightening spiral

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mill
"to keep moving round and round in a mass," 1874 (implied in milling), originally of cattle, from mill (n.1) on resemblance to the action of a mill wheel. Related: Milling.
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