muller

Meanings

Noun

• One who, or that which, mulls.
• A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
• A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
• A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.

Verb

• To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
• To beat; to thrash (a person).
• To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).

Related

Similar words

• sand muller

Origin

• mull + -er
• Unknown. The most prosaic theory derives it from muller. One theory derives the term from the surname of the murderer Franz Müller, while another theory derives it from the surname of German footballer Gerd Müller; both are phonologically improbable. The Oxford Guide to Etymology , 2009) asserts that it is "very probably of Romani origin, from a verb ultimately related to Sanskrit mṛ-' 'to die')."