Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who works in, operates, or owns a mill, especially a grain mill.
  • noun A milling machine.
  • noun Any of various moths whose wings and bodies have a powdery appearance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cicada.
  • noun One who grinds grain in a mill; one who keeps or who attends to a mill, especially a grain-mill.
  • noun A milling-machine.
  • noun A moth whose wings appear as if dusted over with flour or meal, like a miller's clothes; hence, almost any small moth, Such as fly about lights at night.
  • noun A fish, the eagle-ray, Myliobalis aquila; a mill-skate.
  • noun The hen-harrier, Circus cyaneus.
  • noun A young flycatcher. C. Swainson, Brit. Birds, 1885, p. 49. [Local, Eng.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
  • noun A milling machine.
  • noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
  • noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. The eagle ray.
  • noun Prov. Eng. The hen harrier.
  • noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill.
  • noun A milling machine.
  • noun Any of several moths that have powdery wings.
  • noun The common name of a flour-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
  • noun United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
  • noun someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
  • noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
  • noun United States playwright (1915-2005)
  • noun any of various moths that have powdery wings

Etymologies

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Examples

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  • Singer screwed Superman wit returns while the movie was alright bosworth as lane no it didn't work (hey could do a whole legion of superhero movie fixing things wit smallville and put him on the path to be Superman.) miller is a good writer the whole thing wit civil war it didn't change the marvel landscape its all still the same secret avengers warriors meh nothin changed just got more team comics.

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  • Singer screwed Superman wit returns while the movie was alright bosworth as lane no it didn't work (hey could do a whole legion of superhero movie fixing things wit smallville and put him on the path to be Superman.) miller is a good writer the whole thing wit civil war it didn't change the marvel landscape its all still the same secret avengers warriors meh nothin changed just got more team comics.

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  • Now, the tendency of the English miller and the German miller, is to look to the Argentine Republic for the kind of wheat he used to get in Canada.

    International Trading in Grain 1928

  • "They are an irascible family from the mother down," he observed, "and I'm sorry you've got into trouble with them so soon for the miller is probably the most popular man in the county."

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • "The miller is a rather extraordinary character, I believe," she answered, lifting the spoon out of the dish of tomatoes as it was handed to her, and then shaking her head with a sigh and letting it fall.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • And the miller informed of this, searched for a diamond that the knight's lady had lost, and found it in her body, as the knight knew afterwards: so he called the miller "fisherman", and the miller called him "fastener".

    Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

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