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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
   mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[=i], mul[=i]n,
   Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone;
   prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth.
   malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour,
   and cf. {Moline}.]
   1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as
      grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough,
      or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a
      bone mill.

   2. 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; as, a
      cider mill; a cane mill.

   3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

   4. A common name for various machines which produce a
      manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material
      by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a
      sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

   5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by
      which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a
      cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

   6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in
      relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design
      in a softer metal, as copper.

   7. (Mining)
      (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings,
          from which material for filling is obtained.
      (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

   8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}.

   9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.

   {Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint},
      etc.

   {Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly
      from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant
      iron in the mill.

   {Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace.

   {Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of
      a mill.

   {Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones.

   {Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.

   {Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill
      wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.

   {Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after
      turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.

   {Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth.

   {Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a
      mill.

   {Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by
      crushing grain between rollers.

   {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
      stamps.

   {To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or
      discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of
      knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
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