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Gristmill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A mill for grinding grain.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A mill that grinds grain, especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for the flour (less a percentage)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A mill for grinding grain by the grist, or for customers. See flouring-mill.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

mill milling machinery grinder

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