mill
noun
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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By then, commuters will be milling among “so many appurtenances” — mall-style escalators, mezzanines, maps — that “the scale of the actual shell of the structure” will be lost, says Mukherjee, the engineering manager.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2012