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Mill about   /mɪl əbˈaʊt/   Listen
Mill about

verb
1.
Be about.  Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill around, tarry.  "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
2.
Move about in a confused manner.  Synonyms: mill, mill around.






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"Mill about" Quotes from Famous Books



... other scouting parties were sent to reconnoiter in the direction of Hartsville, to watch the enemy at Castalian Springs, and the fords of the river, and to picket the Nashville and Lebanon pike. The "combined forces" left Baird's mill about 11 A.M., and passed through Lebanon about 2 P.M., taking the Lebanon and Hartsville pike. The snow lay upon the ground and the cold ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

... was born about 1832 in Frederick County, Maryland. His first master, Michael Reel, had a farm and a flour mill about four miles from Frederick City. Reel owned sixteen slaves, among whom were Fred's mother and her eight children. Fred's father belonged to a man named Doyle, who had an adjoining farm. Doyle sold the father to a man named Fisher, who subsequently ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... without leadership the same reaction takes place in many people. But even in these rudimentary cases there are persons who know what they want to do more quickly than the rest, and who become impromptu ringleaders. Where they do not appear a crowd will mill about aimlessly beset by all its private aims, or stand by fatalistically, as did a crowd of fifty persons the other day, and watch a man ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann



Words linked to "Mill about" :   lurch, move, footle, be, prowl, lollygag



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