gristmill

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Etymology

From grist +‎ mill.

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Noun

gristmill (plural gristmills)

  1. A mill that grinds grain, especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).
    • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11:
      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.

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