milling : Idioms & Phrases


High milling

  • milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.
  • a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.
Webster 1913

Low milling

  • milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.
  • a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings.
Webster 1913

Milling cutter

  • a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.
Webster 1913

Milling machine

  • noun machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
    miller.
WordNet
  • a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.
Webster 1913

Milling tool

  • a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.
Webster 1913