Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in the state in which a product leaves a mill; unsorted and uninspected.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The work of an amalgamating-mill between two clean-ups.
- noun A test of a given quantity of ore by actual treatment in a mill.
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Examples
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Take the instance of the Mulatos Mine: The bunch of Chinamen who proposed to buy it insisted on a mill-run test on fresh-mined ore, taken out by themselves, for a five-days 'run.
The Gold Brick and the Gold Mine: Fake Mining Schemes that Steal the People's Savings 1910
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The mill-run was an entire success from the viewpoint of the sellers, although not from that of the buyers.
The Gold Brick and the Gold Mine: Fake Mining Schemes that Steal the People's Savings 1910
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Each springtime when the Reindeer passed over Sveggum's mill-run, as they moved from the lowland woods to the bleaker shore of Utrovand, the
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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It crossed the smaller stream and the mill-run by two wooden bridges; but the river itself had been too large for the bridge-maker's efforts, and here there was a ford, with stepping-stones for foot passengers.
The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848
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(So, Randy, what you're saying is, the less like a mill-run JRPG Knights in the Nightmare is, the more you like it?)
Gaming Nexus 2009
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