mill run

1 of 3

noun

1

: a test of the mineral contents of rock or ore by actual milling

2

: millrace

3

: the salable lumber output of a sawmill

4

: the common run of an article passing through a mill

5

: something or someone average, ordinary, or mediocre

an unpredictable kind of man, very different from the mill run of us down here

—Angus Mowat

mill-run

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adjective

: being in the state in which it comes from a run in a mill : ungraded and usually uninspected

mill-run steel

mill-run cloth

mill-run

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transitive verb

: to yield (so much weight or worth of precious metal per ton of ore) at a mill run

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Etymology

Adjective

mill run

Transitive verb

mill run

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