Definition of "milling" []

• The act or process of grinding, especially grinding grain into flour or meal. (noun)
• The operation of cutting, shaping, finishing, or working products manufactured in a mill. (noun)
• The ridges cut on the edges of coins. (noun)

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• "I had a blast reading it and it raised some points that will remain milling around in the noggin awhile."
• "The biggest difficultly of course is in milling the lower receiver to accept a fifth FCG component — the auto sear."
• "Physicists, physical chemists and biochemists concerned themselves with it and made investigations upon it, with results which seemed to have only a purely scientific bearing; but it has now found an application which has already revolutionized certain milling and ore-separating processes."