rolling mill

a mill where ingots, slabs, sheets, etc., of usually hot metal are passed between rolls to give them a certain thickness or cross-sectional form.

a machine or set of rollers for rolling out or shaping metal.

Origin of rolling mill

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

The Author snarled to me that she laughed like a rolling-mill and reasoned like a head-on collision.

A Woman Named Smith |Marie Conway Oemler
In 1750 it placed him under a penalty of 200 for erecting a rolling-mill, tilt-hammer or steel-furnace.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science |Various
Just then we drove upon a bridge, which crossed a vile pool, upon the shore of which was a rolling-mill.

Romance of California Life |John Habberton
Mouldings are run out for us by the mile, like iron from the rolling-mill or tunes from a musical-box, as cheap and as soulless.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. |Various

Our rolling-mill men and steel-works men are working now under the same wages under which they struck.

Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 |Various

rolling mill

a mill or factory where ingots of heated metal are passed between rollers to produce sheets or bars of a required cross section and form

a machine having rollers that may be shaped to reduce ingots, etc, to a required cross section and form