mill vs skip

mill

noun
  • A passage underground through which ore is shot. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

skip

noun
  • A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. 

  • A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep). 

  • A college servant. 

  • A skip car. 

  • The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. 

  • An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. 

  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

  • The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him. 

  • The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. 

  • A wheeled basket used in cotton factories. 

  • A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket. 

  • A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found. 

  • A charge of syrup in the pans. 

  • A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. 

  • skywave propagation 

  • The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain. 

  • The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary. 

  • A beehive. 

verb
  • To move by hopping on alternate feet. 

  • To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. 

  • To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. 

  • To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch. 

  • To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1). 

  • To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. 

  • To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). 

  • To have insufficient ink transfer. 

  • To leap about lightly. 

  • Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). 

  • To jump rope. 

  • To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. 

  • To leap lightly over. 

How often have the words mill and skip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )