milling machine

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noun

a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter ) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.

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Also called miller.

Origin of milling machine

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby milling machine

millimole, milline, milliner, millinery, milling, milling machine, Millington, million, millionaire, millionairess, million electron volts

How to use milling machine in a sentence

The milling machine used there has a tendency to “goo up over time—to get dirty.”
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The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.
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They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
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“If BMW is ‘the ultimate driving machine,’ your Anthem is the ultimate differentiator,” writes Hogshead.
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The resulting Wool Runners were comfortable, eco-friendly, machine-washable, and super cute—and sold out almost immediately.
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The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
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A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
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The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
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The machine penetrated everywhere, thrusting aside with its gigantic arm the feeble efforts of handicraft.
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"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.
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British Dictionary definitions for milling machine

milling machine

noun

a machine tool in which a horizontal arbor or vertical spindle rotates a cutting tool above a horizontal table, which is used to move a workpiece

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