grist

• An' then he propped hisself up on a pile o' grist, an' thar he read all the sayin's ez war writ in that letter. —  A Chilhowee Lily 1911
• We crossed the Schiltpads Kill,[215] where there was a fall of water over the rocks, affording a site for a grist-mill which was erected there. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
• I met a soldier on the road, and, having been told at home that we must be good to the soldiers, I gave him my fish An old man, Major Alexander Sympson, who lived not far from the Lincolns at this period, left this description of "a mere spindle of a boy," in one of his earliest attempts to defend himself against odds, while waiting at the neighboring mill while a grist was being ground He was the shyest, most reticent, most uncouth and awkward-appearing, homeliest and worst-dressed of any in the crowd. —  The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
• McCormick began to make his famous reaper in a grist-mill. —  Pushing to the Front
• Everything is grist which comes to a small boy's digestive mill, anyway, and the food wasn't really distasteful. —  A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life

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