Quern

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A primitive hand-turned grain mill.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones
  • v. To grind.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stone hand-mill for grinding grain.
  • n. The old hand-mill, or quern, such as Pennant sketched the Hebrides women grinding with in the last century, has not yet gone out; Dr. Mitchell says there are thousands of them at work in Scotland, where still
  • n. A hand-mill used for grinding pepper, mustard, and the like. Such querns were used even on the table, and as early as the sixteenth century.
  • To grind.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mill    milling machinery    grinder   
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