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Gristmill

noun
1.
A mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain).





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"Gristmill" Quotes from Famous Books



... have a bigger one by and by, but in the meanwhile it includes the selling of timber in place of destroying it, and a doubling right off of the Somasco mill. It also takes in a gristmill, the recording of more timber rights, and most of you getting in on the ground floor of a new silver mine. There's to be an office down in Vancouver, and a desiccated fruit store, and the best men we can get hold of to run them. Now sit still while I read what ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss
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... approached whistling to keep his courage up, but a panic seized him, and he turned and ran home without daring to look behind. It was in this vicinity that Thomas Whittier built his first house in Haverhill. Further down the stream was Millvale, where were three mills, one a gristmill. This mill and the evil reputation of the bridge are both referred to in these lines from "The Home-Coming of the Bride," a fragment first printed in ...
— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard
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Words linked to "Gristmill" :   millstone, milling machinery, grinder, mill


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