Types of Grinding Mills
- windmill, wind powered
- watermill, water powered
- horse mill, animal powered
- treadwheel, human powered (archaic: "treadmill")
- ship mill, floats near a river bank or bridge
- arrastra, simple mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore.
- roller mill, an equipment for the grinding or pulverizing of grain and other raw materials using cylinders
- Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials
- a place of business for making articles of manufacture. The term mill was once in common use for a factory because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were powered by a watermill, but nowadays it is only used in a few specific contexts; e.g.,
- bark mill produces tanbark for tanneries
- cider mill crushes apples to give cider
- gristmill grinds grain into flour
- oil mill, see expeller pressing, extrusion
- paper mill produces paper
- sawmill cuts timber
- starch mill
- steel mill manufactures steel
- sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery) processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products
- textile mill (disambiguation)
- silk mill, for silk
- flax mill, for flax
- cotton mill, for cotton
- huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull rice
- powder mill produces gunpowder
- Ball mill
- Colloid mill
- Conical mill
- Disintegrator
- Disk mill
- Edge mill
- Gristmill, also called flour mill or corn mill
- Hammer mill
- Jet mill
- Mortar and pestle
- Pellet mill
- Planetary mill
- Stirred mill
- Vibratory mill
- VSI mill
- Wiley mill
- Windmill
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