Definitions
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- noun A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which is turned by hand.
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Examples
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See, there where Auntie grinds lentils in the quirn, the squirrel is sitting with his tail up and with his wee hands he's picking up the broken grains of lentils and crunching them.
The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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To encourage them still farther, I will give a quirn to every six families; I have built many for our poor back settlers, it being often the want of mills which prevents them from raising grain.
Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774
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