Mill

From Middle English mille, Old English mylen.

Full definition of mill

(plural mills)

A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.My grandfather worked in a mill.
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.a cider mill; a cane mill
A machine for grinding and polishing.a lapidary mill
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.a steel mill
A building housing such a plant.
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
(informal) an engine
(informal) a boxing match, fistfight1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker Chapter , The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
(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.
(mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
(trading card games) A card or deck that relies on the strategy of putting cards directly from the draw pile into the discard pile.

Ultimately from Latin millesimum.

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(plural mills)

From the noun mill

(transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.to mill flour
(transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
(transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
(intransitive) (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
(zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
(transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.

Rudyard KiplingOrtheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
"I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
(trading card games) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.