Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry (quarry marble) Wiktionary Borrowing from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a place where stones are squared, from Old French quarriÃ¨re (compare modern French carriÃ¨re), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrÅ (âI squareâ) itself from quadra (âa squareâ).
mils is a colloquial term and as such could have more than one meaning. It is possibly short for millilitres (mL) and is therefore 60 mils is 60mL. 60mL is approximately 1/4â¦ of a (non-metric) cup. A metric cup is 250mL.     mils also refers to a unit of thickness 1 mil = .001 inch. 4 people found this useful.
Because mil, like MOA, is an angular measure, the length it represents increases with distance. For example, 1 mil at 100 yards equals 3.6 inches and 7.2 inches at 200 yards. To calculate how many inches are in a mil at any distance, multiply 3.6 times the distance in yards and divide by 100. Subtension