For other uses, see Miller (disambiguation). Miller may refer to: // Miller, a person who owns or operates a mill in which grain is crushed and ground to make flour A miller can also be another name for a machinist or milling machines See Miller (surname) The Millers Prologue and Tale, one of Geoffrey Chaucers...

A miller usually refers to one who grinds a cereal crop to make flour. Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis). ... Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A miller is among the oldest of human occupations and has appeared all over the world. They were important to the development of agriculture but predated it, and were in existence since hunter-gathering times. Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the pre-agricultural practice of harvest from the wild. ...

The materials ground by millers are often foodstuffs and particularly grain. This allows for the easier digestion of the nutrients within the food and saves wear on the teeth. Any other substance needed in a fine, powdered form such as building materials may be processed by a miller. A new generation of Miller's presently exists. Food from plant sources Food is any substance normally eaten or drunk by living organisms. ... This article is about cereals in general. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ...

A Bedstone and the Rind. Dalgarven Mill, Scotland.

The most basic tool for a miller would be a quern-stone - simply a large, fixed stone as a base and another movable stone which would be operated by hand. As technology improved, more elaborate machines such as watermills and windmills were developed to do the grinding work. These mills harnessed available energy sources including animal, water, wind and electrical power. Mills are some of the oldest factories in human history, so factories making other items are sometimes known as mills, for example, cotton mills and steel mills. These factory workers are also called millers. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2288 × 1712 pixel, file size: 760 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The Bedstone millstone with the metal rind above it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2288 × 1712 pixel, file size: 760 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The Bedstone millstone with the metal rind above it. ... Bedstone is a tiny village and parish (population 85) in the county of Shropshire, England, close to the border with Wales. ... Dalgarven Mill is near Kilwinning, North Ayrshire The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Quern-stones are a pair of stone tools for hand grinding a wide variety of materials. ... Wind turbines The scientific definition of a machine is any device that transmits or modifies energy. ... Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour or lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing). ... A Dutch tower windmill surrounded by tulips A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Impact of a drop of water creating circular capillary waves. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A steel mill at the turn of the century in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A steel mill (British English and Australian English steelworks) is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. ...

The Rind in pre-reformation Scotland was often carved on millers gravestones as a symbol of the milling trade. The importance of the profession of the miller in human history is displayed by the fact that 'Miller', 'Milne' and other variants are often found as surnames. Miller is also a common last name such as Done Miller and K Miller In botany, a rind is the thick outer skin of various structures such as fruit. ... A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ...

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