Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mill for grinding grain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mill for grinding grain by the grist, or for customers. See flouring-mill.
Wiktionary
- n. A mill that grinds grain, especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for the flour (less a percentage)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)
Examples
“Somehow or other he heard that there was a place on Swift River called the gristmill, where there was almost all the wheat in the world -- at least that is what Frisky heard.”
“In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down.”
“Each of them has the power to exert enormous influence over the gristmill through which government funding is pulverized into short and long term support.”
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“The lives of American troopers -- men and women -- are cruelly appropriated for the gristmill of domestic politics.”
“He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pa., into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side.”
“He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pennsylvania, into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side.”
“The colorful Amos Singletary, a onetime gristmill owner and a delegate from Sutton in Worcester County, said that not only were six-year terms too long, but that senators would “make themselves perpetual,” move their families with them out of the state, and have “high wages,” all of which would presumably further separate them from their constituents.”
“He also owned a ferry across the Potomac, a fishery, a gristmill that served his neighbors as well as his plantation, and a variety of “manufactories” that produced commodities for his plantation such as linen and woolen cloth that he would otherwise have had to purchase.21”
“But Morris did not let the land lie fallow; he raised a self-contained settlement that would eventually comprise farms and basic industry, including a quarry, a gristmill, a forge, ironworks, and a hat manufactory.”
“Forty years ago mary emma and Dan E. McConaughey built their dream house in Atlanta -- a glass-and-stone split-level set on a 5-acre wooded site with bog trails and a waterfall that once powered a gristmill.”
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Mill
The milling of grain: tools, people, processes, laws.
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