mill
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When mill helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
I L M
Two-Letter Start
MI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LL
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- MI start
- LL ending
- repeated letters
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- mill is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include i, l, m plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the MI start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 3 published Daily snapshots.
Pronunciation
noun
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
"Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill."
noun
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
"My grandfather worked in a mill."
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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.
"a cider mill; a cane mill"
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A machine for grinding and polishing.
"a lapidary mill"
noun
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
noun
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
"a steel mill"
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A building housing such a plant.
noun
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
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An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
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An engine.
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A boxing match, fistfight.
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(die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
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An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
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A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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A milling cutter.
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A treadmill.
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A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
verb
To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
"to mill flour"
verb
To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
verb
To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
verb
(followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
"I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops."
verb
To cause to mill, or circle around.
"to mill cattle"
verb
(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
verb
(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
verb
To beat; to pound.
verb
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
verb
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
verb
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
verb
To undergo hulling.
"This maize mills well."
verb
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
verb
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
verb
(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
noun
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
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One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
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An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
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A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
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A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
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(plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
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A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml
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A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
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(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
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(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
verb
(trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
verb
(Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.