milling machine

noun

a machine tool for rotating a cutter milling cutter to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.

milling machine

a machine tool in which a horizontal arbor or vertical spindle rotates a cutting tool above a horizontal table, which is used to move a workpiece

First recorded in 1875–80

The milling machine used there has a tendency to “goo up over time—to get dirty.”

There, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat.

In the coining-room the planchets are first given to the milling-machine.

To make a cutter of this kind is more difficult than to make a saw, and to do it readily a milling machine would be required.

It has been said that "but for the milling machine, there would have been no such thing as interchangeable manufacturing."

It is said that a man by the name of Bodmer, in Manchester, England, had made a milling machine in 1824.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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