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quernstone

alt. Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand n. Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand

Usage examples of "quernstone".

My aunt is a successful householder in the town and she manages what he brings home and manufactures goods for him to trade, finishing quernstones, mostly, in the workshop.

Both women's spines, he could see now, were snapped, by the great quernstones that must have been hurled down upon them.

The quernstones showed what they had been and what they were there for: they were the master's grinding slaves.

Then the evil Way-folk and the graceless adherents of Alfred will find that the quernstones of God grind slow, but they grind to the last grain.

My aunt is a suc­cessful householder in the town and she manages what he brings home and manufactures goods for him to trade, finishing quernstones, mostly, in the workshop.

I had quernstones, very high quality, and good quality wool cloth woven in my sister's weaving hall.