'Edge mill' definitions:

Definition of 'Edge mill'

From: GCIDE
  • Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[imac], mul[imac]n, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour, and cf. Moline.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Short for Treadmill. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1] or other machinery to grind grains into flour. [PJC]
  • Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc.
  • Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
  • Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.
  • Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.
  • Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.
  • Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
  • Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
  • Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
  • Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.
  • Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.
  • Gin mill, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink.
  • Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.
  • Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.
  • To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Edge mill'

From: GCIDE
  • Edge \Edge\ ([e^]j), n. [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. 'akh` point, Skr. a[,c]ri edge. [root]1. Cf. Egg, v. t., Eager, Ear spike of corn, Acute.]
  • 1. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, (figuratively), That which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. --Rev. ii. 12. [1913 Webster]
  • Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. [1913 Webster]
  • Upon the edge of yonder coppice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. [1913 Webster]
  • The full edge of our indignation. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner.
  • Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill.
  • Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle.
  • Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.
  • Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed.
  • Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. --Knight.
  • Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge.
  • Edge stone, a curbstone.
  • Edge tool. (a) Any tool or instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging tool.
  • To be on edge, (a) to be eager, impatient, or anxious. (b) to be irritable or nervous.
  • on edge, (a) See to be on edge. (b) See to set the teeth on edge.
  • To set the teeth on edge, (a) to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. [archaic] --Bacon. (b) to produce a disagreeable or unpleasant sensation; to annoy or repel; -- often used of sounds; as, the screeching of of the subway train wheels sets my teeth on edge. [1913 Webster +PJC]