mill

«mill» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a building with machines for grinding grain into flour… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mill, mills); verb (mill, mills, milled, milling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mill is a building with machines for grinding grain into flour, often powered by wind or water. tree →

2) A factory where things like cotton, paper or steel are made. tree →

3) A small machine for grinding, such as a pepper mill. tree →

4) To mill around is to move about in a crowd without going anywhere special. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A mill may not be taken as a pledge for a debt, because it is needed to make food. Even the lowest servant at the mill is struck in the last plague. Interpretation: The rabbis read the mill law widely: nothing needed to make a person's food may be seized. This protects a poor person's life. In the primary lessons: Used in history (windmills, watermills, cotton mills in the Industrial Revolution), science (wind and water power), cooking (pepper mill). Phrases: «run-of-the-mill» (ordinary), «go through the mill» (have a hard time), «mill around».

examples

• No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. (Torah EXO.11.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood. (Writings LAM.5.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• The old water mill ground wheat into flour. tree →
• Workers in the cotton mill worked long hours. tree →
• Grind some pepper with the pepper mill. tree →
• Fans milled around outside the stadium. tree →
• It was just a run-of-the-mill day. tree →
• The windmill's sails turned in the breeze. tree →
• There he sees a mill[381] standing. tree →

note

Countable as a noun. Miller = a person who runs a mill. «Run-of-the-mill» = ordinary. Do not confuse with «mil» (short for millilitre or a thousandth).

In the corpora

• No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
• The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
• Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
• The crushed cane stems left over are burned to power the sugar mills.
• The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mill» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.