rolling mill


noun
  1. a mill where ingots, slabs, sheets, etc., of usually hot metal are passed between rolls to give them a certain thickness or cross-sectional form.

  2. a machine or set of rollers for rolling out or shaping metal.

Origin of rolling mill

1
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

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How to use rolling mill in a sentence

  • The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.

    Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
  • William E. Beall, superintendent of the Uniontown rolling mill, was born at this old tavern.

    The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
  • The rolling mill must have come, not only before the modern steam-boiler, but even before the modern plow could be made.

    Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. Steele
  • When actual rail-making for railroads began, the rolling mill raised its powers to meet the emergency.

    Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. Steele
  • The old man that I worked with when I first entered the rolling mill was gray with his sixty years of toil.

    The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis

British Dictionary definitions for rolling mill

rolling mill

noun
  1. a mill or factory where ingots of heated metal are passed between rollers to produce sheets or bars of a required cross section and form

  2. a machine having rollers that may be shaped to reduce ingots, etc, to a required cross section and form

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