Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mill for grinding grain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill for grinding grain by the grist, or for customers. See
flouring-mill .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mill thatgrinds grain , especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for theflour (less a percentage)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)
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Examples
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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.
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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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.
The travels of the Constitution Ezra Klein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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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.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment Dan Silverstein 2011
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The lives of American troopers -- men and women -- are cruelly appropriated for the gristmill of domestic politics.
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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.
Downshift 2010
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