querns

This was going too far; querns of the same material, found in all the ruins, suggested a neighbouring outcrop.

The Land of Midian 2003

At the moment we are confined to hand querns for grinding our grain, but we do possess a proper millstone against the day when we have the power to turn it.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Secrecy was maintained, rather to his surprise; the cut cane and some ears of Indian corn simply vanished to presses and hand querns at the distillery.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

At the moment we are confined to hand querns for grinding our grain, but we do possess a proper millstone against the day when we have the power to turn it.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

When the wheat came in, hand querns would not cope with it.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

When the wheat came in, hand querns would not cope with it.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Secrecy was maintained, rather to his surprise; the cut cane and some ears of Indian corn simply vanished to presses and hand querns at the distillery.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

The women were crushing seaweed in bone querns while the chief sipped from a bronze goblet, the loot of some ancient shipwreck.

Lord of the Isles 1997

Hand querns, which may be turned by a woman, are also not unknown.

Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

Furthermore, whole meal is either produced by households (e.g. by the use of mortar and pestle or of querns), or by custom mills for payment in cash or kind.

Chapter 4 1984