List of types of mill

Types of mill include the following:

Categorized by power source

 * Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
 * Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
 * Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
 * Treadmill or treadwheel, a mill powered by human or animal movement
 * Horse mill, a mill powered by horses' movement

Categorized by not being a fixed building

 * Ship mill, a water mill that floats on the river or bay whose current or tide provides the water movement
 * Field mill (carriage), a portable mill

Categorized by what is made and/or acted on

 * Materials recovery facility, processes raw garbage and turns it into purified commodities like aluminum, PET, and cardboard by processing and crushing (compressing and baling) it.
 * Rice mill, processes paddy to rice
 * Bark mill, produces tanbark for tanneries
 * Coffee mill
 * Colloid mill
 * Cider mill, crushes apples to give cider
 * Drainage mills such as the Clayrack Drainage Mill are used to pump water from low-lying land.
 * Flotation mill, in mining, uses grinding and froth flotation to concentrate ores using differences in materials' hydrophobicity
 * Gristmill, a grain mill (flour mill)
 * Herb grinder
 * Oil mill, see expeller pressing, extrusion
 * Ore mill, for crushing and processing ore
 * Paper mill
 * Pellet mill
 * Powder mill, produces gunpowder
 * Puppy mill, a breeding facility that produces puppies on a large scale, where the welfare of the dogs is jeopardized for profits
 * Rock crusher
 * Sugar cane mill
 * Sawmill, a lumber mill
 * Millwork
 * starch mill
 * Steel mill
 * sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery), processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products
 * Textile mills for textile manufacturing:
 * Cotton mill
 * Flax mill, for flax
 * Silk mill, for silk
 * woollen mill, see textile manufacturing
 * huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull rice
 * Wire mill, for wire drawing

Other types

 * See Category:Industrial buildings and structures

Industrial tools for size reduction and/or filtration
(See comminution, filtration)
 * Arrastra, simple mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore
 * Ball mill, a mill using balls to crush the material
 * Bead mill a type of Mill (grinding)
 * Burr mill or burr grinder, a mill using burrs to crush the material, usually manufactured for a single purpose such as coffee beans, dried peppercorns, coarse salt, spices, or poppy seeds
 * Coffee grinder
 * Conical mill (or conical screen mill)
 * Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials
 * Disc mill (or disk mill)
 * Edge mill
 * End mill, a type of milling cutter used in milling in the machining sense
 * Expeller pressing (also called oil pressing)
 * Hammermill, a mill using little hammers to crush the material
 * IsaMill, an energy-efficient mineral industry grinding mill that was jointly developed in the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines
 * Jet mill, grinds materials by using a high speed jet of compressed air or inert gas to impact particles into each other.
 * Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining)
 * Mortar and pestle
 * Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes
 * Planetary mill
 * Roller mill, a mill using rollers to grind or pulverize grain and other raw materials using cylinders
 * Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking)
 * Strip mill, a type of rolling mill
 * Slitting mill, for slitting metal into nails
 * VSI mill, a mill with a vertical shaft that spins
 * Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials
 * Three roll mill
 * Ultrasonic disintegrator a type of Mill (grinding)
 * Vibratory mill a type of Mill (grinding)
 * VSI mill (vertical shaft impactor mill), a mill that comminutes particles of material into smaller (finer) particles by throwing them against a hard surface inside the mill
 * A wet mill performs wet-milling: steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds
 * Wiley mill, a specific group of grinding mills manufactured under the name Thomas Scientific