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rolling mills

rolling mills is the plural of rolling mill.

Meaning of rolling mill

Noun

rolling mill (plural rolling mills)

  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...1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341
  2. A roller mill (for grain).

Questions about rolling mills

What is rolling mills the plural of?
Rolling mills is the plural of rolling mill.

Words near rolling mills in the dictionary

  1. rolling in the aisles
  2. rolling in wealth
  3. rolling introduction
  4. rolling introductions
  5. rolling mill
  6. rolling mills
  7. rolling news
  8. rolling off
  9. rolling off the tongue
  10. rolling on
  11. rolling one's eyes

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