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miller Definition

miller (milər)

noun

  1. a person who owns or operates a mill, esp. a flour mill
    1. milling machine
    2. a tool to be used in such a machine
  2. any of various moths with wings that look dusty or powdered, suggesting a miller's clothes

Etymology: ME mylnere

Miller Definition

Mil·ler (milər)

  1. Miller, Arthur 1915-2005; U.S. playwright

  2. Miller, Henry 1891-1980; U.S. writer

  3. milər

    Miller, Joaquin (wä kēn) (pseud. of Cincinnatus Heine Miller) 1837?-1913; U.S. poet

  4. 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

n.

mill operator, meal grinder, mill owner; see worker.

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.