Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
MILLINGS
Proper noun
Millings
plural of Milling
Anagrams
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Noun
millings
plural of milling
Anagrams
• gin mills
Source: Wiktionary
MILLING
Mill"ing, n.
Definition: The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. 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.
– Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.
– Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.
– Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.
– 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.
MILL
Mill, n. Etym: [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile.]
Definition: A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Mill, n. Etym: [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mĂĽhle, OHG. muli, mulin, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. Meal flour, and cf. Moline.]
1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
6. (Die Sinking)
Definition: A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
9. A pugilistic. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore. Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc.
– Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
– Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.
– Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.
– Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.
– Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
– Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
– Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
– Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.
– Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.
– Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.
– Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.
– To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
Mill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] Etym: [See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]
1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray.
6. To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.)
Definition: To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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