Miller
['mɪlə] or ['mɪlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it.
(noun.) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill).
(noun.) United States playwright (1915-2005).
(noun.) United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980).
(noun.) United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944).
Editor: Rebekah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
(n.) A milling machine.
(n.) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
(n.) The eagle ray.
(n.) The hen harrier.
Checker: Sigmund
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Moth.
Inputed by Abner
Definition
n. one who has or who attends to a corn-mill.—ns. Mill′er's-thumb a small fresh-water fish with a large broad and rounded head like a miller's thumb the river bull-head.
Editor: Rhoda
Examples
- A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried-- Silence! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Miller was saying our land was better than Mullins's Meadows. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No jealous paper-miller? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Miller,' said Mr. Pickwick to his old acquaintance, the hard-headed gentleman, 'a glass of wine? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Symington’s boat of 1788 (Patrick Miller’s pleasure boat) had side paddle wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A solemn silence; Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the fat gentleman captious, and Mr. Miller timorous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The success of this experiment induced Mr. Miller to have a larger boat built, expressly adapted for the introduction of a steam engine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The first invention of the kind was patented by Mr. Crompton, in conjunction with Mr. Miller and Professor Cowper, in 1828. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It is the bugle of Malvoisin, said the Miller, starting to his feet, and seizing his bow. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then the more reckless of the crowds threw all sense of fairness to the winds, and broke into Mr. Miller’s house, seized the machine, and carried it off with them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Like the Miller of questionable jollity in the song, They cared for Nobody, no not they, and Nobody cared for them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills along the line of the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The master-millers had already departed, and the journeymen were departing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Make haste up, Millers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Surely there never was such fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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