Miller

:For other meanings, see Miller (disambiguation)

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A Miller is a person who operates a mill for grinding material and usually refers to one who grinds a cereal crop to make flour.

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Mill - Grinding - Cereal crop - Flour

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A miller is among the oldest of human occupations and has appeared all over the world. They were important to the development of agriculture but predated this era and were in existence since hunter gathering times.

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Human - Occupation - Agriculture - Hunter gathering

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The materials ground by millers are often foodstuffs and particularly grain. This allows for the easier digestion of the nutrients within the food and saves wear on the teeth. Any other substance needed in a finer, more powdered form such as building materials may be processed by a miller.

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Foodstuff - Grain - Digestion - Nutrient - Food - Teeth

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The most basic tool for a miller would be a quern-stone simply a large, fixed stone as a base and another movable stone which would be operated by hand. As technology developed more elaborate machines were developed to do the grinding work such as watermills which harnessed available energy sources such as animal, water, wind and electrical power. As these are some of the oldest factories in human history factories making other items are sometimes known as mills and their workers millers. Most notably cotton mills and steel mills.

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Quern-stone - Machine - Watermill - Animal - Water - Wind - Electrical - Factories - Cotton mill - Steel mill

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The importance of the profession of the miller in human history is displayed by the fact that it is a common surname.

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