gristmill
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- noun
- /ˈɡrɪstˌmɪl/
:
molino de grano
- He had registered our herd of purebred milking cows, built row houses in town, installed a generator in our gristmill to supply electricity for the town of Belleville, built a stucco dairy barn, and so forth.
- 19th-century gristmill
- shop at this gristmill
- gristmill. Open daily
Examples
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The Canadian company, Irving Woodlands, has roots dating back to 1882 when James D. Irving founded a company that included a sawmill, gristmill, lumber business, and farms.
Blog text (13) -
On 22 September 1820, court-appointed viewers marked a complex pre-law local road that linked the Limestone Road to a gristmill on Hinkston Creek (Figure 9).
Academic text (2004) -
Again, water chuckled in the streams, raised the river levels, and turned the wheels of the gristmills.
Fiction book (1994) -
A stonemason, he had accepted a contract to build a dam and gristmill for the settlement, luring him and his family from Lancashire, England.
Academic text (2009) -
Uncle Zeno farmed with Uncle Al and operated the gristmill on Saturday mornings.
Fiction book (2000) -
"I must sell my farm and my 370 acres and gristmill in New Jersey." He said it with wonderment in his voice, as if the idea had just presented itself to him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Eighteen miles back, they'd turned off the dazzling new highway to gas up at a sun-speckled superette where a gristmill once stood.
Fiction book (1992) -
The third was Walnut Grove, Kansas, where the sawmill, the gristmill, and the largest dry goods emporium west of Independence, Missouri, were already in full operation.
Fiction book (1999) -
Headquartered in a charming old schoolhouse, the Middletown Historical Society typically promotes such fortifying topics as Rhode Island gristmill restoration and Stone Wall Appreciation Day.
Blog text (1) -
Customers bring their grain to the gristmill, where it is ground into flour for their personal use.
Synonyms
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A machine that crushes materials, for example coffee beans
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A building or machine that grinds grain into flour
A stone tool you turn by hand to grind grain into flour
Machines that grind or crush materials like grain into smaller pieces
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Etymology
The word gristmill comes from grist ('grain to be ground') and mill ('a building that grinds grain'). So a gristmill is a place where people bring their grain to be ground into flour.