Meaning & use
Milled
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Ground, crushed, or processed in a mill; also describing a surface with fine ridges cut into it, as on the edge of a coin.
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The bakery uses freshly milled flour for its sourdough.
You can tell a genuine coin by running your finger along its milled edge.
A note on using this word
The milled edge on coins was originally introduced to prevent people from shaving off precious metal.
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2. verb
Ground into flour, meal, or powder (past tense of "mill").
The wheat was milled into fine flour at the local mill.
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