milling

The act or process of grinding, especially grinding grain into flour or meal.

The operation of cutting, shaping, finishing, or working products manufactured in a mill.

The ridges cut on the edges of coins.

The process of grinding, or subjecting materials to the action of the machinery of a grinding-mill. Specifically

The manufacture of cereals into flour or meal.

The operation of upsetting the edge of a coin-blank to form the milled edge; also, the operation of putting the series of small transverse ridges and furrows on the edge of an otherwise finished coin, or on a screw-head to adapt it for easy turning with the fingers. See milled screw, under screw.

A method of shaping metals in a milling-machine, by passing the metal under a serrated revolving cylinder or cutter

In metal-working, a method of ornamenting metallic surfaces by treatment in a lathe with ribbed tools, which produce ridged surfaces.

A method of softening and opening the pores of hides by placing them with some tan-liquor in a wooden drum which is caused to revolve.

The felting or fulling of a cloth to thicken it.