mill around

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Verb	1.	mill around - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" footle, hang around, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mess about, mill about, tarry, lounge, lurk, linger, loaf be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" prowl, lurch - loiter about, with no apparent aim
	2.	mill around - move about in a confused manner mill, mill about move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"

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When the wind changes they hitch on some donkeys and actually turn the whole upper half of the mill around until the sails are in proper position, instead of fixing the concern so that the sails could be moved instead of the mill.

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Adjoto, however, raised the alarm on the influx of commercial s3x workers that mill around the House of Assembly legislative quarters and its environs between 9 pm to dawn and urged the ministry to urgently put machinery in motion to check the ugly trend.