Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of millstone is as below...

Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Eye :: Eye (n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

Draff :: Draff (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

Moline :: Moline (n.) The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.

Millstone :: Millstone (n.) One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..

Bridgepot :: Bridgepot (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle..

Land :: Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves..

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.

Burr Millstone :: Burr millstone () See Buhrstone.

Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

Grind :: Grind (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones..

Dress :: Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

Manna Croup :: Manna croup () The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats..

Millrynd :: Millrynd (n.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.

Rynd :: Rynd (n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Bosom :: Bosom (n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

Semolina :: Semolina (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery..

Random Fonts

Most Popular