milling machine

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   machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it

   Synonymsmiller

   Broadershaper

Questions about milling machine

What does milling machine mean?

milling machine means "machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it".

What is another word for milling machine?

Close synonyms include miller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milling machine a common word?

milling machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.