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milling machine
noun
- a machine tool for rotating a cutter milling cutter to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
milling machine
noun
- a machine tool in which a horizontal arbor or vertical spindle rotates a cutting tool above a horizontal table, which is used to move a workpiece
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Word History and Origins
Origin of milling machine1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
The milling machine used there has a tendency to “goo up over time—to get dirty.”
There, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat.
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In the coining-room the planchets are first given to the milling-machine.
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To make a cutter of this kind is more difficult than to make a saw, and to do it readily a milling machine would be required.
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It has been said that "but for the milling machine, there would have been no such thing as interchangeable manufacturing."
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It is said that a man by the name of Bodmer, in Manchester, England, had made a milling machine in 1824.
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