grindery
- noun
- Archaic
:
taller de afilado
- The blacksmith worked diligently in the grindery to sharpen the blades for the tools.
Examples
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He walks out through the grindery and around the house to the equipment shed, where he steps up into the cab of the tractor (a John Deere he bought two years ago and will be paying on for twenty).
Fiction book (1993) -
His brother is in the grindery, and Jay walks to the far end of the confinement and opens the great doors.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Jay goes through the door to the grindery and into the main barn.
Fiction book (1993) -
Then he goes into the grindery and feeds the pigs, checking each pen carefully.
Fiction book (1993) -
When the food begins to come into the troughs, he hears the grindery door close.
Fiction book (1993) -
He pulls the great doors closed and walks back through the hall to the grindery.
Fiction book (1993) -
After finishing his repairs, he left the grindery with a collection of freshly sharpened tools.
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The old grindery was filled with the sounds of metal being ground against stone.
Synonyms
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A workshop where people use tools to cut and shape metal or hard materials
A room in a workshop where workers keep and fix tools
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grindery comes from the verb grind ('to crush or sharpen') plus the ending -ery that makes a word name a 'place', like bakery. So a grindery is a workshop where people sharpen blades and tools, like using a grinder or a grindstone.