millstone
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- noun
- /ˈmɪlˌstoʊn/
:
mole
- The farmer used the large millstone to grind wheat into flour for bread.
- millstones for grinding grain
- grinding millstones
Polished paving stones were once millstones grinding.
- Polished paving stones were once millstones grinding.
Examples
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Footprints are still visible in the fields, and within the collapsed walls of a courtyard, intact millstones and ceramic food steamers look like they are waiting to be used.
Academic text (2011) -
One level below, the ancient millstones started to roll against each other, producing a soft rumble like distant thunder.
Fiction book (1991) -
We ground everything then by hand, with millstones or pestles.
Fiction book (1993) -
A bakery, identified by the remains of a large bread oven and several millstones for grinding grain, occupies the front of the complex and opens up onto the Abbondanza.
Academic text (2010) -
Until recently, windmills have been used mostly to pump water or to turn millstones that grind grain, but modern wind turbines are used to drive generators to produce electric power.
Academic text (2009) -
Looking at the bustling human activity, the viewer can almost hear the moving freight carts, the rushing water that powers the wheels, the grinding millstones, and workers shouting back and forth.
Academic text (2002) -
In the old mill, two millstones rotated against each other to crush the grain.
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With the power of the flowing river, the ancient millstones efficiently ground grains into fine flour.
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Etymology
Millstone is made of the simple parts mill and stone, and it names the large, heavy flat stone in a mill that grinds grain into flour. That stone helped make bread, which is why millstone is linked to hard work and food.