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millstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millstone \Mill"stone`\, n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill[1].
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to
pledge.
--Deut. xxiv.
6.
Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects.
Millstone girt (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology.
To see into a millstone or To see through a millstone, to see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large round stone used for grinding grain. 2 (context geology English) A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit 3 (context figurative English) A heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.
WordNet
n. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck" [syn: albatross]
any load that is difficult to carry
one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
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Wikipedia
Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains.
Millstones come in pairs. The base or bedstone is stationary. Above the bedstone is the turning runner stone which actually does the grinding. The runner stone spins above the stationary bedstone creating the "scissoring" or grinding action of the stones. A runner stone is generally slightly concave, while the bedstone is slightly convex. This helps to channel the ground flour to the outer edges of the stones where it can be gathered up.
The runner stone is supported by a cross-shaped metal piece ( rind or rynd) fixed to a "mace head" topping the main shaft or spindle leading to the driving mechanism of the mill ( wind, water (including tide) or other means).
Millstone is a device made of stone, used in windmills and watermills for grinding wheat or other grains.
Millstone may also refer to:
Usage examples of "millstone".
And--for thou canst outweep the crocodile-- By thy false tears--those millstones braining men-- 14.
However, when one of the engines failed, or shortly after takeoff with all the flaps and landing gear hanging out, the radome was actually a five-ton millstone.
And--for thou canst outweep the crocodile-- By thy false tears--those millstones braining men-- 14.
The American Civil War Centennial had bred a thriving market for shooting reproductions of nineteenth-century caplock weaponsranging up from Philadelphia derringers to full-size field cannonand his firm had sent him over to try to strike a deal with certain of his contacts in the Italian arms manufactories involving production of these reproduction weapons at a cost less than that charged to them by American arms companies, with their millstones of higher overheads and production costs, and grasping, predatory unions.
We seemed to be the center of a whirling confusion, a crashing, screamimg dizziness, almost as though this great granite millstone of ours, in a final convulsion of cruelty, had come alive to whirl us down the barren slopes of Dartmoor to destruction.
Table-delicacies, paper, wooden shoes, hats, wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye-works.
It was iniquitous destiny beginning afresh: the most crushing toil falling upon a beast of burden, the son hebetated after the father, ground to death under the millstones of wretchedness and injustice.
Look at a millstone, Mr. George, for some change in its expression, and you will find it quite as soon as in the face of Mr.
Who causeth one of these little ones to offend, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.
It seemed as if the house, which I had hitherto thought so beautiful, was like a millstone about my neck.
They also carried millstones and bake ovens, armorers and their forges, and extra materials to keep the bowmen supplied with arrows.
Ben guided the horses and cart into position, backing up little by little as Matteo used the oar to raise the millstone.
The gate was a miniature version of the Thrall's, vertically raised and lowered by countersunk centre-holed millstones.
And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns.
Noth would have needed a nutcracker to eat hazelnuts or brazil nuts, and a millstone to process grains like wheat and barley.