rolling mill

English

Noun

rolling mill (plural rolling mills)

1. A machine or group of machines for rolling metal (especially steel) into semifinished or finished shapes, such as beams, plate, or sheet; the entire associated plant (e.g., machinery, buildings, railyards).

   Hypernym: mill

   • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:

     Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.

2. A roller mill (for grain).

Related terms

mill to roll metal

• cold roll
• cold rolling
• hot roll
• hot rolling
• rolls
• steel mill (usually holonymous)

mill for grain

• rolled oats