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What is a mill?

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"Mill" alone as a noun, is a generic term for a range of a plant or factory dedicated to a specific process such grain-milling to produce flour, cotton-weaving, timber-sawing, etc. -- with the product's name added as an adjunct (flour mill, sugar mill, cotton mill, steel mill, sawmill).

May also be described by the motive power, e.g. "windmill", water mill".

Mill is also a verb meaning to crush or grind (as with cereal grains), or to cut and shape metals with

machine tools.

Money

1 mill is 1/10 of 1 cent. (1/1000 of a dollar)

At one time it was common to have tax tokens denominated in mills.

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