beak vs mill

beak

verb
  • Strike with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Seize with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

mill

verb
  • To take part in a fistfight; to box. 

  • To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile. 

  • To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 

  • To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. 

  • To move about in an aimless fashion. 

  • To beat; to pound. 

  • To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. 

  • To swim suddenly in a new direction. 

  • To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 

  • To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand. 

  • To swim underwater. 

  • To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). 

  • To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. 

  • To undergo hulling. 

  • To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. 

  • To cause to mill, or circle around. 

noun
  • A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic. 

  • An engine. 

  • An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. 

  • One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. 

  • A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. 

  • A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. 

  • A prison treadmill. 

  • A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck. 

  • 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. 

  • An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. 

  • A milling cutter. 

  • A passage underground through which ore is shot. 

  • Discarding a card from one's deck. 

  • A boxing match, fistfight. 

  • An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised 

  • A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 

  • A building housing such a plant. 

  • A typewriter used to transcribe messages received. 

  • A machine for grinding and polishing. 

  • The building housing such a grinding apparatus. 

  • The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. 

  • A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper. 

  • An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc. 

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