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Gristmill

noun
1.
A mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain).





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"Gristmill" Quotes from Famous Books



... In time, the gristmill owners also operated distilleries, converting the pioneer's wheat, rye, and barley into spirited beverages which were freely imbibed along this and other frontiers. By the time of the Revolution, distilling was so common as to cause the Committee ...
— The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 - A Study of Frontier Ethnography • George D. Wolf
... Wheeler had a store where Miss Betsey Capell, in more modern times, kept a haberdasher's shop. It is situated opposite to the Common, and now used as a dwelling-house. She was the daughter of John Capell, who owned the sawmill and gristmill, which formerly stood near the present site of the Tileston and Hollingsworth paper-mills, on the Great Road, north of the village. Afterward Wheeler and his brother, Abner, took Major Thomas Gardner's ...
— Bay State Monthly, Volume I, No. 2, February, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various


Words linked to "Gristmill" :   mill, milling machinery, grinder, millstone


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