資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Milling \Mill"ing\, n.
   The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill;
   the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or
   intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing
   surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See {Mill}.

   {High milling}, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by
      a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial
      crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the
      product.

   {Low milling}, milling in which the reduction is effected in
      a single crushing or grinding.

   {Milling cutter}, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for
      dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.

   {Milling machine}, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by
      rotary cutters.

   {Milling tool}, a roller with indented edge or surface, for
      producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure,
      as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

資料來源 : WordNet®

milling machine
     n : machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is
         fed against rotating cutters that shape it [syn: {miller}]