Meaning of ஆலை in English

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
A pugilistic.
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To beat with the fists.
To roll into bars, as steel.
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To perform the act of planting.
Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
A little plant.