Millstone

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  • noun. One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A source of worry or distress.
  • noun. An obstacle to success. synonym: burden.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill{1}.
  • noun. a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology.
  • noun. to see into or through a difficult matter.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large round stone used for grinding grain.
  • noun. A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any load that is difficult to carry
  • noun. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
  • noun. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
  • Word Usage
    "PLEASANT GROVE CITY, Utah — Across the street from City Hall here sits a small park with about a dozen donated buildings and objects — a wishing well, a millstone from the city’s first flour mill and an imposing red granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments."
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    balk  baulk  burden  check  deterrent  
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