milling

Meanings

Plural: millings

Noun

• corrugated edge of a coin
• Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
• Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
• Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
• Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
• Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
• A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
• The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
• The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
• The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
• A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.

Verb

• move about in a confused manner
• grind with a mill
• produce a ridge around the edge of
• roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
• present participle and gerund of mill

Synonyms

mill, mill about, mill around