noun. A primitive hand-turned grain mill.

noun. A stone hand-mill for grinding grain.

noun. The old hand-mill, or quern, such as Pennant sketched the Hebrides women grinding with in the last century, has not yet gone out; Dr. Mitchell says there are thousands of them at work in Scotland, where still

noun. A hand-mill used for grinding pepper, mustard, and the like. Such querns were used even on the table, and as early as the sixteenth century.

To grind.

noun. A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

noun. A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones

verb. To grind.

noun. a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand

""It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.""

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grinder  mill  milling machinery  

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