1. miller(n = noun.person) alton glenn miller, glenn miller - United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944);
is a kind of bandleader
2. miller(n = noun.person) henry miller, henry valentine miller - United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980);
is a kind of author, writer
3. miller(n = noun.person) arthur miller - United States playwright (1915-2005);
is a kind of dramatist, playwright
4. miller(n = noun.person) - someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill);
is a kind of artificer, artisan, craftsman, journeyman
5. miller(n = noun.artifact) milling machine - machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it;
is a kind of shaper, shaping machine
6. miller(n = noun.animal) moth miller - any of various moths that have powdery wings;
is a kind of moth
1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. [1913 Webster]
2. A milling machine. [1913 Webster]
3. 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
miller, n.
1 the proprietor or tenant of a corn-mill.
2 a person who works or owns a mill.
Idiom:
miller's thumb a small spiny freshwater fish, Cottus gobio: also called BULLHEAD.
Etymology:
ME mylnere, prob. f. MLG, MDu. molner, mulner, OS mulineri f. LL molinarius f. molina MILL(1), assim. to MILL(1)
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