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high milling

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noun

  1. a process for making fine flour, in which the grain is alternately ground and sifted a number of times.


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It is called "high milling," and consists in cracking the wheat by successive operations down to the required size.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

The Hungarian wheat is red, shrivelled, and hard, and it is this hardness that fits it so well to the successive crackings which constitute the process of "high milling."

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

Perhaps the German division of low milling, half high milling, and high milling is better.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various