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
Angus Mowat
: being in the state in which it comes from a run in a mill : ungraded and usually uninspected
mill-run steel
mill-run cloth
: to yield (so much weight or worth of precious metal per ton of ore) at a mill run
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“Mill run.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mill%20run. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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