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- noun Either of a pair of
stones used forgrinding material by hand
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Examples
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At Sewerby, in East Yorkshire, a woman with rich grave goods had been buried in a deep grave, and a second woman had been buried a few inches above her at the same time, laid face down and with a piece of a quernstone over her pelvis.
Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England Carla 2008
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At Sewerby, in East Yorkshire, a woman with rich grave goods had been buried in a deep grave, and a second woman had been buried a few inches above her at the same time, laid face down and with a piece of a quernstone over her pelvis.
Archive 2008-01-01 Carla 2008
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"My word has been given, and I should be a craven if I stayed away now, just because an old crone sitting at a quernstone tells me I am going into a trap."
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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It would be beneficial for Japan if such a fellow were tied to a quernstone and dumped into the sea.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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