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grist mill

n. (alternative spelling of gristmill English)

Usage examples of "grist mill".

His father had owned one of the first mills in Port Ticonderoga, a modest grist mill, in the days when everything was run by water.

Everybody knows you usually fish below the grist mill and the cider mill.

Though it had only been ten minutes since he'd left the grist mill, it felt like a lifetime.

In fact, Trisu's father built a grist mill on what is clearly our land, and Trisu has refused to acknowledge that Lord Darhal was in the wrong when he did.

On the matters of water rights, road tolls, and the location of your father's grist mill on land which belongs to Kalatha, it would appear to me that the war maids are correct.

He had me show him the windmill and the water wheel and the grist mill, and tell him how they worked.

Even in the middle of the last century the grist mill, a couple of miles from Lewes, although it was at most but fifty or sixty years old, had all a look of weather-beaten age, for the cypress shingles, of which it was built, ripen in a few years of wind and weather to a silvery, hoary gray, and the white powdering of flour lent it a look as though the dust of ages had settled upon it, making the shadows within dim, soft, mysterious.

This place, it seemed, was an old grist mill on the outskirts of town.