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The muller, or crushing and grinding stone, used in grinding corn on a metate. [Mexico & Local U. S.]

Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. -- Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. -- Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfac…

A crushing blow. [Obs.]

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

sil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.

An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.

A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs.] erbert.

A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply. [Colloq.] Hudibras.

A machine for crushing or hammering stone. Knight.

Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.

, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

aratus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared.