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rolling mill en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A machine or group of machines for rolling metal (especially steel) into semifinished or finished shapes, such as beams, plate, or sheet; the entire associated plant (e.g., machinery, buildings, railyards).
   • Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here. 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
2. A roller mill (for grain).

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mill

Relateds

cold roll (mill to roll metal) · hot roll (mill to roll metal) · cold rolling (mill to roll metal) · hot rolling (mill to roll metal) · rolls (mill to roll metal) · rolled oats (mill for grain) · steel mill (mill to roll metal)