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Quern   Listen
noun
Quern  n.  A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; used before the invention of windmills and watermills. "They made him at the querne grind."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Quern" Quotes from Famous Books



... are quite right; this is his place," said the old man. "When you get in they will all want to buy your ham, for ham is scarce food here; but you must not sell it unless you get the hand-quern, which stands just behind the door. When you come out again I'll teach you how to use it. You will find it useful ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... ac, ut fas erat inter inimicos, flagrante bello, brevissima interrogationis mora interposita, alterutros invicem incitato cursu infestis animis petiere. Noster, primo occursu, equo praeacerrimo hostis impetu labante, in terram eversus pectore et capite laeso, sanguinem, mortuo similis, evomebat. Quern ut se aegre habentem comiter allocutus est alter, pollicitusque, modo auxilium non abnegaret, monitisque obtemperans ab omni rerum sacrarum cogitatione abstineret, nec Deo, Deiparae Virgini, Sanctove ullo, preces aut vota efferret vel inter sese conciperet, se ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Quern" :   mill, grinder



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