muller

noun

1. One who, or that which, mulls.
2. One who, or that which, mulls.
3. A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.

   “The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.”

4. A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.

   “The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.”

5. (broadly)A device used for crushing or grinding.

verb

1. (colloquial, obsolete, rare, transitive)To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.

   “The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.”

2. (UK, slang, transitive)To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
3. (UK, slang, transitive)To beat or thrash (someone).

   “We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started.”

   “You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.”

   “Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.”

   “Then there were these zombie cult people in the beds, wires and stuff shoved into them, and then Yianna had these two minders and they were the ones who mullered us in Cairo, I swear, and one of them grabbed Con […]”

   “"They mullered him, Jimmy." Spider shook his head. "He was completely destroyed."”

4. (UK, often, slang, transitive)To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
5. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).

name

1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].

   ““In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.””