Millstone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.
  • n. A heavy weight; a burden: This job is a millstone around my neck.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large round stone used for grinding grain.
  • n. A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill{1}.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any load that is difficult to carry
  • n. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
  • n. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
    • Equivalent
    to see through a millstone   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burden    loading    load    impediment    balk   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    buhrstone    quernstone    runner   
    Same Context
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    oxygene    stirrer    nethermost    bifurcation    cuthbert   
     
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