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What is another word for millstones?

Pronunciation: [mˈɪlstə͡ʊnz] (IPA)

Millstones refer to a pair of circular stones used to grind wheat or other grains into flour. There are several synonyms used for millstones, such as grindstones, querns, hand mills, and flour mills. Grindstones were first used in the Prehistoric era and were made of volcanic rocks, sandstone, or granite. Querns, on the other hand, were smaller hand mills used for grinding grain at home. Flour mills, as the name suggests, are large industrial-sized mills that grind a large quantities of wheat into fine flour. These synonyms for millstones may be used interchangeably depending on the context and the era being discussed.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    mill, stone, milling tool, Grain grinding device, Grinding apparatus.

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  • The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
    Vladimir Lenin
  • And the difficultest job a man can do, Is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, And feel that that's the proper thing for you.It's a naked child against a hungry wolf; It's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; It's walking on a string across a gulf With millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; But the thing is daily done by many and many a one. And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.
    John Davidson (poet)
  • All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.
    Ursula K. Le Guin

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