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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In gold- and silver-milling, a pan-shaped machine with a revolving muller for grinding ores in order to extract the precious metals from the resulting pulp with the aid of mercury. The use of chemicals and heat is sometimes required, especially for silver ores.
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