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
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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.