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gristmill en · NOUN

Etymology

From grist + mill.

Meanings

1. A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).
   • Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill
   • Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon. 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11

Forms

Relateds

miller · gristmiller · grist mill · grist · gristmilling · millstone

Synonyms

flourmill · feed mill

Translations (9)

pl młyn zbożowy (mill that grinds grain) · hy ալրաղաց (mill that grinds grain) · es aceña (mill that grinds grain) · de Getreidemühle (mill that grinds grain) · es molino harinero (mill that grinds grain) · fr farinerie (mill that grinds grain) · as জাঁতমিল (mill that grinds grain) · et viljaveski (mill that grinds grain) · eo grenmuelejo (mill that grinds grain)