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Crazing-mill :: Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore.

Mill :: Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill..

Milling :: Milling (n.) 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..

Cockhead :: Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced..

Pomace :: Pomace (n.) The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding..

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

Swarm :: Swarf (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.

Bridgetree :: Bridgetree (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

Millstone :: Millstone (n.) One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Toll :: Toll (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Crown :: Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth..

Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments..

Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..

Triture :: Triture (n.) A rubbing or grinding; trituration.

Slip :: Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

Muller :: Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material..

Chew :: Chew (v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.

Mill :: Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill..

Tanite :: Tanite (n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc..

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