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Definition of Mill around

1. Verb. Be about. "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

Definition of Mill around

1. Verb. (intransitive usually of a group of people) To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mill Around

Literary usage of Mill around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"mill around ... mill around (of a crowd), move to and fro aimlessly within a crowd (of people, fish, etc. ..."

2. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"The buckets empty at the center of the mill around the shaft and above the level of the balls. It will thus be seen that it is impossible for anv of the ..."

3. The Rose of Sharon by Sarah C Edgarton Mayo (1847)
"... and groaneth the old red mill. Around its cupola, tall and white, The swallows wheel, in their summer flight; The elm-trees wave o'er its mossy roof, ..."

4. The Innocents Abroad: Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress : Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1899)
"When the wind changes they hitch on some donkeys, and actually turn the whole upper half of the mill around until the sails are in proper position, ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Cotton Mills, 1П NC 222, 88 SE 242, in -which there was a reservoir near a cotton mill, around which the children of the employés were in the habit of ..."

6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"When the wind changes they hitch on sonic donkeys, and actually turn the whole upper half of the mill around until the sails arc in proper position, ..."

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