mill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building or factory where grain is crushed into flour, or where materials like cloth or paper are made.

   Her grandfather worked in the cotton mill all his life.

2. 2
   noun

   A small machine for grinding something into powder.

   Pepper tastes better when it is ground fresh from a mill.

3. 3
   verb

   To grind something in a mill.

   The farmers brought their grain to be milled into flour.

From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin.

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