A kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for art or brickmaking. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

A windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind. It is different from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.

plural of mill wheel

A device that grinds material very finely by means of a horizontally rotating drum containing ceramic or metal balls

A rice huller, a device for removing the outer husks of raw grains of rice. / A building housing and powering such a device.

A form of windmill constructed so that the whole building rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground. It is capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies.

(historical) A rod by which a millstone was trundled from the quarry to the mill.

(pottery) A mill in which flints are ground.

(ironworking) A rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.

A process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.