mill

mill
1 noun (C)
1 a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour, or the machine itself: an old mill with a ruined water-wheel
2 a factory that produces materials such as cotton, cloth, steel: a woollen mill
3 coffee/pepper mill a small machine for crushing coffee or pepper
4 go through the mill to go through a time when you experience a lot of difficulties and problems: Go easy on him - he's been through the mill lately.
5 put sb through the mill to make someone answer a lot of difficult questions or do a lot of difficult things in order to test them
6 AmE a unit of money equal to 1/10 of a cent, used in setting taxes and for other financial purposes
—see also: run­of­the­mill, (all) grist to the mill grist 2 verb (T)
1 to produce flour by crushing grain in a mill
2 to press, roll, or shape metal in a machine
3 to mark the edge of a coin with regular lines
mill around/about phrasal verb (I) informal if a lot of people mill around, they move around a place in different directions without any particular purpose: Crowds of students were milling around in the street.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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