Another explanation is that it means a "mill with a row of houses", combining the Old English elements myne and raw.
Even if you sail it on a mill pond somehow water will try to get inside.
"It was a mill-grinder, tough, no, really tough, but I came out of the other end of it and was really proud of myself".
(Being from Boston, Damon would say, "It's a mill-a-tairee yoona-versa-dee").
Finally, it describes a mill-machining test conducted with the prototype, which confirmed that the tool clamp is little affected by centrifugal force at high rotational speeds.
"It's not a mill anymore".
QUESTION FROM ROBIN HARDMAN: Interesting article, but I was distracted nearly from the start when you blithely reported buying a dog from a pet store — knowing full well it came from a mill.
No player matched him as a slip fielder: he was utterly reliable, relaxed and confident, never throwing the ball up after catching it (his father, a mill executive, said this was only for "swanks").
"You can't just chuck it up in a mill and use conventional metalworking tools," says Joel Moskowitz Joel Moskowitz, Ceradyne's founder and chief executive.
When the bankruptcy was announced, the company also said that it was shutting down a mill, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs, and that it would not provide workers with severance pay, health insurance and other benefits.
