millers

Noun

miller (plural millers)

1. A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flourmill.
   • Constable's father, a wealthy miller, operated the mill at Flatford, which still stands 1 mile south of the village.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 160, about East Bergholt
2. (dated) A milling machine.
   • 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...1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341
3. Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis.
4. A floury-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus.
5. (UK, archaic, slang) A rat.
6. (Appalachia, informal) A moth.

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