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Definition: GRINDING MILL |
GRINDING MILL1. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A machine for the wet or dry fine crushing of ore or other material. The three main types are the ball, rod, and tube mills. The mill consists of a rotating cylindrical drum; the ore enters one hollow trunnion and the finished product leaves the other. Modern practice indicates ball mill feeds of 1/2 in, 3/4 in, and 1 in (1.27 cm, 1.91 cm, and 2.54 cm) for hard, medium, and soft ores respectively and the products range from 35 to200 mesh and finer. See also:open-circuit mill. (references) |
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Crosswords: GRINDING MILL |
| English words defined with "GRINDING MILL": Bridgetree ♦ Lighter screw. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GRINDING MILL": aerofall mill ♦ batch mill, buhrstone mill ♦ CALCINER, GYPSUM, CARNALLITE-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ disk mill ♦ Griffin mill ♦ Hadsel mill ♦ LABORER, STARCH FACTORY, LACQUER MAKER, lacquer mixer, linseed-oil-mill tender, LINSEED-OIL-PRESS TENDER ♦ MAGNESIUM-MILL OPERATOR, MILLER, WET PROCESS ♦ open-circuit mill ♦ Raymond mill ♦ WHEEL-MILL OPERATOR. (references) |
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 | Grinding mill for sorghum cane made by Indian family near Summerville, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | San Sebastian, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Small grinding mill at a "central". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grinding mill | 17 |
fine grinding mill | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "GRINDING MILL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hebrew | משחז×", מ×'רס×" (crusher, mill), ×ž×˜×—× ×" (mill, mincing machine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zúzómalom (breaker, bruiser, stamp mill), törőmalom, őrlőmalom (pulverizer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indinggray illmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-r" | |
-4 letters: drilling, gingilli, girdling, grilling, grinding, mingling, ridgling. | |
-5 letters: dinging, dirling, gilding, gilling, gingili, girding, girning, gliding, gliming, griding, griming, limning, milling, minding, nilling, ridging, rilling, ringing. | |
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