miller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who owns or operates a mill, especially one that grinds grain into flour

   The miller checked the stones before grinding the new wheat harvest.

2. 2
   noun

   a milling machine or a worker who operates one

   The machinist set the miller to cut a precise groove in the steel plate.

From Middle English myllere or mellere, related to mill + the agent suffix -er and probably continuing an Old English formation. Mill ultimately came through Germanic from Latin molina ("mill"), from molere ("grind"). The occupational surname Miller developed from the same trade name.

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