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  • noun Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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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