miller
miller
Definition
miller (mil′ər)
noun
- a person who owns or operates a mill, esp. a flour mill
- milling machine
- a tool to be used in such a machine
- any of various moths with wings that look dusty or powdered, suggesting a miller's clothes
Etymology: ME mylnere
Miller
Definition
Mil·ler (mil′ər)
Miller, Arthur 1915-2005; U.S. playwright
Miller, Henry 1891-1980; U.S. writer
- mil′ər
Miller, Joaquin (wä kēn′) (pseud. of Cincinnatus Heine Miller) 1837?-1913; U.S. poet
Miller, Joe 1684-1738; Eng. stage comedian: Joe Miller's Jest-book (1739), a book of jokes attributed to him, was published after his death
miller
Synonyms
miller
Usage Examples
Possessives
- son: Constable is famous for being the miller's son.
- daughter: The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter 14.
- cottage: A miller's cottage with a walled garden was added to the main building in 1761.
- wife: After repeated molesting of the miller's wife and daughter, the miller poisoned them.
- house: This complete section, along with the Victorian miller's house built onto the front, had to be demolished.
Converse of object
- age: In 1861 he was given as a miller aged 42 lodging at the Lord Howe's Public House, St. Gregory's.
- become: The Friends of New Hall Mill Ever wanted to become a miller or to operate a water mill?
- see: You'll see the miller turn the wheel on the right to open the sluice gate in front of the waterwheel.
Adjective modifier
- horizontal: They were finish machined on a large horizontal miller with a ganged cutter setup.
- vertical: The shaper is a greatly underrated tool - and was largely displaced for many years by a flood of cheap vertical millers.
- last: The last miller was a T Eccles recorded in 1895.
- next: Norfolk Chronicle - 20th April 1833 Charles Clare was the next miller.
- old: Ipswich Journal - 13th July 1778 Another story goes... An old miller called Lock was grinding grist for the farmers around.
- local: In fact the broken capstone is more likely to be the work of a local miller who needed a new millstone.
Noun used with modifier
- journeyman: Some millers worked on their own and others employed a son or a journeyman miller to assist them.
- corn: White's Directory of Suffolk lists him as a corn miller and coal and corn merchant.
- flour: In the UK, flour millers use some 5.5 million tons of wheat annually to produce over 4.5 million tons of flour.
- tenant: In April 1889 Laura Rackham sold the mill to the mill's tenant miller, Edward Woodrow.
- master: Edwin's parents were Samuel Sewell a master miller and Sarah Woods.
- quot: A summary of new model came quot miller says.
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