Crossword clues for grindstone
grindstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grindstone \Grind"stone`\, n. A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold one's nose to the grindstone, To bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. To put one's nose to the grindstone
to oppress one; to cause one to work hard and steadily.
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to set oneself to a long and arduous task.
To keep one's nose to the grindstone to continue at a long and arduous task; to apply oneself steadily to one's duties.
They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Laced[ae]monians to hold their noses to the grindstone.
--Sir T. North.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c. "millstone," from grind (v.) in sense of "sharpen" + stone (n.); meaning \n"revolving stone disc used for sharpening, etc." is from c.1400. Phrase nose to the grindstone in use by 1530s; originally to get control of another and treat him harshly:This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grindstone, that it clean disfigureth their Faces. [John Frith, "Mirror to know Thyself," 1532]The main modern (reflexive) sense of "work hard" is from 1828.
Wiktionary
n. An abrasive wheel for sharpening, polishing or grinding.
WordNet
n. a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 530
Land area (2000): 2.145976 sq. miles (5.558052 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.145976 sq. miles (5.558052 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31594
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.012106 N, 79.820708 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15442
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Grindstone-Rowes Run
Grindstone, PA
Grindstone
Wikipedia
- Grindstone is a tool used for sharpening
Grindstone may also refer to:
- A type of millstone used to grind grains such as wheat
- Grindstone (horse), 1996 Kentucky Derby winner and sire of the racehorse Birdstone
- Grindstone (album), 2007 album by the Norwegian band Shining
- Grindstone (time tracking software), a program that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time
- Grindstone 100 Miler, a 100 mile long ultramarathon in Virginia
Places:
- Grindstone, Pennsylvania
- Grindstone, South Dakota
- Grindstone, Manitoba, a peninsula and part of the Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park in Manitoba, Canada.
- Grindstone Butte, a summit in South Dakota
- Grindstone Island (Magdalen Islands), an island in the Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada
- Grindstone Island (Ontario), is an island in Big Rideau Lake, Ontario, Canada.
- Grindstone Island, is one of the Thousand Islands, in the St. Lawrence River in the United States of America.
- Grindstone Island (New Brunswick), an island on Shepody Bay, New Brunswick, Canada.
Grindstone (foaled January 23, 1993) is a thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 1996. He became jockey Jerry Bailey's 2nd Kentucky Derby winner and the second in a row for trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
Grindstone is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian band Shining, released in 2007 by Rune Grammofon.
Grindstone is a free Microsoft Windows desktop application that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time. The application features a Task List window for managing tasks and time, a desktop gadget-like stopwatch for controlling the timer, and can produce reports and detect when the user is away. In addition, Grindstone can synchronize time tracking data for multiple users via a paid service called Task Force.
A grindstone is a round sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools. They are usually made from sandstone.
Grindstone machines usually have pedals in which to speed and slow the stone to sharpen metal to the point of perfection.
A rotary grindstone − the earliest representation thereof, which is operated by a crank handle, is shown in the Carolingian manuscript Utrecht Psalter; the pen drawing from about 830 goes back to a late antique original. The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone which was rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle. Around 1480, the early medieval rotary grindstone was improved with a treadle and crank mechanism.
Usage examples of "grindstone".
And unlike rivers back home on Anicca, the Grindstone had no snags where I might get caught: Muta was millions of years away from having trees, and therefore millions of years from having significant deadfalls blocking the stream.
He was being kind without making much of an effort, probably because he knew that it was he, more than any of the other consultants, who kept her nose to the grindstone.
Derek, who had stayed to the last, covering their escape with mangolds, had jumped down twenty feet when he saw them taking Sheila, and, pitching forward, hit his head against a grindstone.
Rek alternates between the bellows and the grindstone, where he is finishing edges on blades for wood planes.
Their power drove mills for tanning and laundering, sawing wood, pressing olive oil, casting iron, mashing malt for beer and pulp for paper and pigment for paints, operating fullers’ vats for finishing woolen cloth, bellows for blast furnaces, hydraulic hammers for foundries, and wheels for grindstones used by armorers.
He coughed, set down the hammer for a moment, and watched as Clerve used the grindstone to polish and smooth the finished black iron arrowheads.
The departing Axmen roam about peering at, poking, and buying Blankets, Kettles, Milch Cows, Grindstones, anything Mo McClean thinks he may sell to lighten the load, before the Mountains, no offer too insulting.
A line of boulders reaching diagonally across the stream answered for a dam, by diverting a portion of the volume of water to a channel at the side, where it moved a clumsily constructed wheel, that turned two small stones, not larger than good-sized grindstones.
Through a gray fog he noticed a copper snake at the far end -- much, much bigger than any he had seen before -- and a grindstone, and a smaller edition of the treadmill upstairs, underneath one thing that he could never overlook: a great big gold ball on a pillar near the door, big enough for a man to stand up in if it were hollow.
He girds his loins, squares his shoulders, and with a smile on his lips, a glint in his eye, his feet on the ground, his head in the clouds, his back to the wall, a song in his heart and a spring in his step, puts his nose to the grindstone and lets George do it.
He sold kerosene, sailcloth, canisters for fresh water, rope, nets, fish traps, eel baskets, fishing tackle of all kinds, tar, paint, sandpaper, yarn, oilcloth, pitch, and tallow, but also carried tools, from axes to pocketknives, and had small carpenter's benches, grindstones, inner tubes for bicycles, carbide lamps, pulleys, winches, and vises in stock.
And when I get back I want to see you with your shoulder to the wheel and your nose to the grindstone.
In the socialist state everybody will have to keep his feet flat on the floor, his head in the clouds, his shoulder to the wheel, his back to the wall, his ear to the ground, and his nose to the grindstone.
What do you suppose that, having once placed my shoulder to the wheel and my nose to the grindstone, I will leave the furrow unplowed?
He's got to leave troops there to keep Urban's nose to the grindstone, and still a lot of people are going to think their consciences are free of any kind of obedience.