Rock salt or peppercorn grinder

noun

1. A building provided with machinery for processing and especially for grinding grain into flour
2. A machine or apparatus for grinding grain
3. A device or machine for reducing something (as by crushing or grinding) to small pieces or particles

   "a pepper mill"

4. A machine for hulling grain kernels (as of rice, oats, or spelt)
5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery for manufacturing

   "a paper mill"

6. A machine that manufactures by the continuous repetition of some simple action
7. A machine formerly used for stamping coins
8. A machine for expelling juice from vegetable tissues by pressure or grinding

   "a cider mill"

9. Milling machine, milling cutter
10. A slow, laborious, or mechanical process or routine

    "Pacquiao has filed about a dozen bills as congressman but none has passed any of the committees they have been referred to, the first hurdle in the legislative mill."

11. One that produces or processes people or things mechanically or in large numbers

    "a diploma mill"

12. A difficult and often educational experience
13. The engine of an automobile or boat

verb

1. To grind into flour, meal, or powder

   "milling wheat"

2. To remove the outer layers of (seed kernels) to subject to hulling

   "milling rice to remove the husk and bran layers"

3. To shape or dress by means of a rotary cutter
4. To mix and condition (something, such as rubber) by passing between rotating rolls
5. To give a raised rim or a ridged or corrugated edge to (a coin)
6. To cut grooves in the metal surface of (something, such as a knob)
7. To move about in a disorderly or aimless fashion

   "a crowd milling about outside the theater exit"

8. To move about in a circling mass
9. To hit out with the fists
10. To undergo milling

    "seed too wet to mill properly"

noun

1. A million dollars

noun

1. A money of account equal to ¹/₁₀ cent

biographical name

1. James 1773–1836 Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist

biographical name

1. John Stuart 1806–1873 son of James Mill English philosopher and economist

noun

1. A million dollars

noun

1. Thousand

   "found a salinity of 38.4 per mil"

2. A monetary unit formerly used in Cyprus equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ pound
3. A unit of length equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ inch used especially in measuring thickness (as of plastic films)
4. A unit of angular measurement equal to ¹/₆₄₀₀ of 360 degrees and used especially in artillery

noun

1. A waterwheel that drives a mill

noun

1. A pulverizing machine consisting of a rotating drum which contains pebbles or metal balls as the grinding implements