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. [1913 Webster]

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.

top

THESAURUS

milling

architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mining, molding, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, workmanship

For further exploring for "milling" in Webster Dictionary Online