Definition of Millable

1. Adjective. Capable of being milled (shaped or polished by machine). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Millable

1. mill [adj] - See also: mill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millable

mill-race
mill-sixpence
mill/kwh
mill about
mill agent
mill around
mill drill
mill fever
mill race
mill races
mill rate
mill rates
mill residue
mill wheel murmur
millability
millable (current term)
millage
millage tax
millages
millah
millahs
millarcsecond
millarcseconds
millboard
millboards
millcake
millcakes
milldam
milldams
milldust

Literary usage of Millable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Zealand Forestry by David Ernest Hutchins (1919)
"New Zealand millable twice Appalachians.—Certain "stands" of timber are quoted ... It shows that the present New Zealand millable forest, even in its wild ..."

2. Pedagogical Articles: Linen-measurer by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener (1904)
"Though our grain used to be larger and more millable than what it is now, I never saw such. I used to hear my father say that in his day the grain was ..."

3. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report Upon the by United States Dept. of the Treasury, John Ross Browne (1867)
"ledge, the millable ores not being obtained until a depth of nearly one hundred feet was reached. In the ground of the Savage company, adjoining on the ..."

4. The Commonwealth Law Reports: Cases Determined in the High Court of by Australia High Court (1905)
"If it shall be found that there are not five hundred thousand (500000) super feet of millable pine timber of the size and description as aforesaid standing ..."

5. Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the Grain Trade by United States Federal Trade Commission (1922)
"It would reduce the volume of millable wheat very materially. If you could not bring it in and dry it the farmer would^et very little for it on his farm. ..."

6. Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the by John Ross Browne (1869)
"Already about $100.000 have been expended upon these two claims, from neither of which has any amount of millable ore been extracted. ..."

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