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miller

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Mill=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

millern. 
  •  One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A milling machine.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.  [1913 Webster]
Miller's thumb. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American (Uranidea gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

miller, n.
1 the proprietor or tenant of a corn-mill.
2 a person who works or owns a mill.

Idiom
miller's thumb a small spiny freshwater fish, Cottus gobio: also called BULLHEAD.
Etymology
ME mylnere, prob. f. MLG, MDu. molner, mulner, OS mulineri f. LL molinarius f. molina MILL(1), assim. to MILL(1)

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