mill

Missouri mill token.

Meanings

A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
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 machine for grinding and polishing.
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
A building housing such a plant.
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
An engine.
A boxing match, fistfight.
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.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
A prison treadmill.
A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Alternative of mil
A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
Discarding a card from one's deck.
A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
To move about in an aimless fashion.
To cause to mill, or circle around.
To swim underwater.
To swim suddenly in a new direction.
To beat; to pound.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
To undergo hulling.
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
To commit burglary.
To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

From Middle English mille, milne, from Old English mylen, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō or *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum or molīnus, from Latin molō, closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne. moulin.
Ultimately from Latin millesimum.
, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

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