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- noun Plural form of
quernstone .
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Examples
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Didn't Charlemagne write to King Offa about the price of quernstones and cloaks, too?
The Merovingian coins from Sutton Hoo Carla 2008
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She was one of twelve, but the other women had fallen asleep by the quernstones.
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Querns consist of two coarse stones (quernstones), usually granite, sandstone, or a conglomerate, set one above the other and rubbed together with the corn in between.
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