The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MILLS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1981.
Machines for grinding crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MILLS | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Machines for grinding
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mills
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- aerodrome
- drawbar
- hob
- press
- router
- shaper
- alligator
- battery
Crossword Answer definitions
MILLS noun- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A building housing such a plant.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
- An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
- An engine.
- A boxing match, fistfight.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- A milling cutter.
- A treadmill.
- A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To beat; to pound.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To undergo hulling.
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
- An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
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