Thesaurus: miller

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1. n. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
2. n. A milling machine.
3. n. A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
4. n. The eagle ray.
5. n. The hen harrier.
6. n. someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
7. n. machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
8. n. any of various moths that have powdery wings
9. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. 2. A milling machine. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.] Miller's thumb. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (U. gobio), and the American (U. gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff- chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]
10. n:100 n. United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) n. United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980) n. United States playwright (1915-2005)