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gristmill

NOUN
  1. a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)

How To Use gristmill In A Sentence

  • At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill.
  • In 1746 a gristmill was established on the site, which survived in use until 1866, when it was moved and continued to grind for many more years.
  • Each of them has the power to exert enormous influence over the gristmill through which government funding is pulverized into short and long term support. Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment
  • In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters.
  • The demand for grain was increasing and the gristmills were unable to keep up with the production.
  • Soon the gristmills were no longer needed except in occasional places where they were used to grind livestock feed.
  • He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pa., into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side. Downshift
  • His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.
  • Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy.
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