A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting. Such comminution is an important unit operation
A tabletop hammer mill
Principle of SAG mill operation
A windmill in Kuremaa, Jõgeva County, Estonia
A gristmill grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated from its chaff in pr
Mill (grinding)
…the mill circuit feed size in micrometers. Another type of fine grinder commonly used is the French buhrstone mill, which is similar to old-fashioned flour mills. A high pressure grinding roll, often referred to as HPGRs or roller press, consists out of two rollers with the same dimensions, which are rotating…
Allied Mills flour mill on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in North West England, 2010
Senenu Grinding Grain, c. 1352–1336 BC. The royal scribe Senenu appears here bent over a large grinding stone. This unusual sculpture seems to be an elaborate version of a shabti, a funerary figurine placed in the tomb to work in place of the deceased. Brooklyn Museum.
The basic anatomy of a millstone. The diagram depicts a runner stone.
Grinding mechanism in an old Swedish flour mill, 2005