millstones

At that time, corn was ground between two large stones called millstones, which was hard work.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

There were ten full, and under the millstones was a great bin holding, I should say, half as much more.

A March on London 1867

We were always made to feel as if we had ruined our parents 'lives by being born, that we were in the way, that we were "millstones" around their necks keeping them from the freedom to do whatever they wanted.

Your Comments 2006

Pottery and some kinds of stone that are formed out of earth burnt up by fire, such as millstones, cannot be dissolved.

Meteorology 2002

The Management have an impossible task, a ludite Union misleading the workforce, a declining Market, a subsidized competition, who don't have the "millstones" of Universal Delivery and a huge Pension Deficit round their necks.

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So metals prices have been ground between the two millstones of two different sets of PTB.

Maul Scale | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

Corn he had, hundreds of bushels, stored in great bins of stout matting; peas and beans in sacks, and in the back yard his millstones went round and round, grinding out meal.

The Yellow Peril 2010

Don't you see, you poor perishing middle class, you are caught between the upper and nether millstones, and even now has the grinding begun.

Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream 2010

"Toward midnight, I will go forth among the Egyptians, and every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the first-born of the slave girl who is behind the millstones."

Bruce Feiler: When Pharaoh Falls: Six Lessons From The Exodus For Egypt Today Bruce Feiler 2011

"Toward midnight, I will go forth among the Egyptians, and every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the first-born of the slave girl who is behind the millstones."

Bruce Feiler: When Pharaoh Falls: Six Lessons From The Exodus For Egypt Today Bruce Feiler 2011