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Milling   /mˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Milling

noun
1.
Corrugated edge of a coin.



Mill

verb
(past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling)
1.
Move about in a confused manner.  Synonyms: mill about, mill around.
2.
Grind with a mill.
3.
Produce a ridge around the edge of.
4.
Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.



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"Milling" Quotes from Famous Books



... cracked. One of the foremost riders went down; another stumbled over him, fell. The rush was checked for an instant, milling ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt

... it, Your Majesty. To tell the truth, it was he who organized this march. Thought they'd be better employed coming here to petition you than milling around the University ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper

... rancid if they are not carefully stored. In the making of white flour, the germ of the wheat is removed, and since most of the fat is taken out with the germ, white flour keeps much better than graham flour, from which the germ is not abstracted in the milling process. ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... certain impatience at first over the restrictions of comparative poverty; he had had to learn the value of money. And the pictures he retained had had a certain opulence which the facts appeared to contradict. Thus he remembered a large ranch house, and innumerable horses, grazing in meadows or milling in a corral. But David had warned him early that there was no estate; that his future depended entirely ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... heads up and down with the discomfort of the pace they must keep. Whiplashes whistled and the drivers urged them on with much shouting. Blumenthall, cut off, with his men, from reaching his own ranch, was directing a group about to set a back fire. His voice boomed as if he were shouting across a milling herd. A roll of his eye brought his attention momentarily from the work, and he ran toward a horseman who was gesticulating wildly and seemed on the point of riding straight toward ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower


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