Cryptic crossword clue
Factory with a thousand unable to work? 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MILL

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What does MILL mean?

1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
5. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
6. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
7. A building housing such a plant.
8. An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
9. An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
10. An engine.
11. A boxing match, fistfight.
12. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
13. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
14. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
15. A milling cutter.
16. A treadmill.
17. A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

1. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
2. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
3. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
4. (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
5. To cause to mill, or circle around.
6. (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
7. (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
8. To beat; to pound.
9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
10. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
11. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
12. To undergo hulling.
13. To take part in a fistfight; to box.
14. To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
15. (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
3. A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
4. (plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.

1. A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml

1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

1. (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
2. (trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

1. (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
2. (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

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