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# mill

noun (a mill, mills); verb (mill, mills, milled, milling)

«mill» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A mill is a building with machines for grinding grain into flour, often powered by wind or water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m1)
2. A factory where things like cotton, paper or steel are made. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m2)
3. A small machine for grinding, such as a pepper mill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m3)
4. To mill around is to move about in a crowd without going anywhere special. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m4)

### In the lessons

Used in history (windmills, watermills, cotton mills in the Industrial Revolution), science (wind and water power), cooking (pepper mill). Phrases: «run-of-the-mill» (ordinary), «go through the mill» (have a hard time), «mill around».

### Examples

- The old water mill ground wheat into flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x1)
- Workers in the cotton mill worked long hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x2)
- Grind some pepper with the pepper mill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x3)
- Fans milled around outside the stadium. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x4)
- It was just a run-of-the-mill day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x5)
- The windmill's sails turned in the breeze. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x6)
- There he sees a mill\[381\] standing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x7)

### Note

Countable as a noun. Miller = a person who runs a mill. «Run-of-the-mill» = ordinary. Do not confuse with «mil» (short for millilitre or a thousandth).

## In Jewish tradition

A mill may not be taken as a pledge for a debt, because it is needed to make food. Even the lowest servant at the mill is struck in the last plague.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis read the mill law widely: nothing needed to make a person's food may be seized. This protects a poor person's life.

### Examples

- No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mill/#x1)
- and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. (Torah EXO.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mill/#x2)
- The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood. (Writings LAM.5.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mill/#x3)

### Note

Countable as a noun. Miller = a person who runs a mill. «Run-of-the-mill» = ordinary. Do not confuse with «mil» (short for millilitre or a thousandth).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mill.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mill» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mill/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mill» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mill.html) on Mova free.