muller
nounEtymology
From mull (“to mix (clay and sand) under a roller to prepare a mould”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mull is possibly derived from mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”), from Middle English mollen, mullen (“to moisten (something); to soften (something) by making wet; to become liquid; to drizzle; to crumble or soften (something) by grinding; to fondle or pet (something)”), from Old French moillier, muillier (“to make wet”) (modern French mouiller), and from its etymon Vulgar Latin *molliāre, *mulliāre (“to make wet”), from Latin molliāre, the present active infinitive of molliō (“to soften”), from Latin mollis (“soft”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”) or *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + -iō (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
Definitions
One who, or that which, mulls.
A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal…
A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.
A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to…
A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.
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A device used for crushing or grinding.
To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
- The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.
To destroy (something)
To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
To beat or thrash (someone).
- You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.
- Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.
To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.)
To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).
A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
- “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
The neighborhood
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA