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- noun Plural form of
miller .
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Examples
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The idea of gradual reduction milling was borrowed by our millers from the Hungarian mills.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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Over all waves the standard of the millers, which is some hundreds of years old!
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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Over all waves the standard of the millers, which is some hundreds of years old!
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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They were called "millers" because they were often found in the flour barrels.
Rat@2E Lindy 2007
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Co-operatives have acted as secondary producers, such as millers, for some time.
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All other insects, the whole winged host that fills the summer air with life and sound, were included under two heads, "millers" and "bugs."
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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One of those small white moths known as "millers" went past him.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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RIVES moved further to amend the second resolution, by inserting after "millers," blacksmiths and tanners; "and the question being on agreeing thereto, was put, and decided in the affirmative.
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1861-62 Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1861
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My father was one of the white millers employed by the Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) to run the uranium mill in Shiprock, N.M. News of health disasters came to me as rumors at school: They say a herd of sheep drank from the river and died.
Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010
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My father was one of the white millers employed by the Vanadium Corporation of America to run the uranium mill in Shiprock, N.M. News of health disasters came to me as rumors at school: They say a herd of sheep drank from the river and died.
Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010
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