Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
praying-wheel .
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Examples
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The day came when he understood that the effort to charm her by the parade of these things was like the appeal to divine grace by means of grinding on a prayer-mill.
The Wild Olive Basil King 1893
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Thibetan prayer-mill, "(she had fondly intended me for the priesthood) he sat down to a letter, the result of which was that I found myself in
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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