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a machine that taught water and wind to do your chores before electricity showed up.
means A building or machine that grinds, crushes, or processes raw material—grain into flour, ore into powder, fiber into thread—often powered by water, wind, or these days a motor.
from From Old English 'mylen,' borrowed early from Late Latin 'molina,' itself from Latin 'mola' meaning millstone, and the verb 'molere,' to grind. That same grinding root runs deep through Indo-European, a cousin of words for crushing and breaking down. So a mill has always been, at heart, a thing that grinds—everything else, the wind and water and gears, came later as ways to turn the stone.
- ancient tech
- Romans ran water mills two thousand years ago
- slang
- a million dollars, casually shortened by money people
- treadmill origin
- prison punishment device grinding grain via human steps
- rumor
- the phrase run-of-the-mill means unsorted, average output
- windmill count
- the Netherlands still keeps over a thousand
lowell mill system — textile mills in massachusetts employing thousands of young women starting 1814
claude bernard mill — operational water mill in alsace, france since 1467
philipsburg manor — restored gristmill on hudson river, new york built 1693