“mill” is a correct word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a factory or a building where a particular industrial process is carried out. For example, “The old mill on the edge of town had been abandoned for years.” It can also be used as a verb to refer to the action of grinding or pounding grain into flour, as in “My grandmother used to mill wheat in her kitchen.”.
He was the son of Walter Fielden, a painter and decorator, and Florence (nee Thomas), who worked at the mill in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, until her death from asthma when Roy was 17.
Cairo is a rumour mill, so who knows what to believe?
A handful of people mill around the entrance in the glaring sun, waiting for their turn to enter.
The Spinnerei, a former cotton mill that now houses an enclave of artist's studios, celebrates a 10-year anniversary with open days in January, May and September.
As people mill around the open-plan kitchen, spilling out into the living room and the garden beyond, he is easily identifiable, perched on a stool, specs resting neatly on the end of his nose.
It's in these same derelict steelworks that the six redundant workers, who once manned a strip mill, end up rehearsing their strip routine.
There is no Churchill or Kennedy on offer, just run-of-the-mill politicians from a political class as despised at home as its counterparts are elsewhere.
Instead of heating wood, these stoves use other plant material even run-of-the-mill farm refuse.
If this sounds humdrum, that's what austerity Britain is: humdrum, run-of-the-mill immiseration.
Instead of the imaginative, integrated development plan drawn up by Charles Correa, the renowned Mumbai-based architect, the former mill-hub of Lalbaug-Parel is a soulless cram of skyscrapers, mall-to-mall carpeting and snarled traffic clashing with the tenements housing the dispossessed worker families.
True, Larry is a waif from a cats' home in Battersea, lending the affair a Dickensian flavour that will appeal to the Conservatives' mill-owning tendency, but Tories are natural dog owners.
