How To Use Gristmill In A Sentence
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At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The demand for grain was increasing and the gristmills were unable to keep up with the production.
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Soon the gristmills were no longer needed except in occasional places where they were used to grind livestock feed.
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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.
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His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.
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Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy.
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There was a small gristmill, a sawmill, a blacksmith shop, an ashery and half a dozen houses, all rudely built, planted in a surrounding of stumps, with the bush encircling all.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
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The lives of American troopers -- men and women -- are cruelly appropriated for the gristmill of domestic politics.
Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal
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Somehow or other he heard that there was a place on Swift River called the gristmill, where there was almost all the wheat in the world -- at least that is what Frisky heard.
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
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He also constructed a gristmill, wharf, and boatyard, and shipped the products of his furnace as far as New Orleans.
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Archive 2008-02-01
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In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down.
The travels of the Constitution
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