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Definition of Gristmills
1. gristmill [n] - See also: gristmill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gristmills
Literary usage of Gristmills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1904)
"... to condemn lands for the erection of dams to supply water power for gristmills,
and also to condemn lands to be overflowed for the erection of such ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"... condemnation of lands for water gristmills alone, and been extended so as to
Include not only water gristmills, but other purposes useful to the public, ..."
3. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"The southern back-country and the trans-Alleghany settlements were supplied with
both gristmills and sawmills early in their history, the former usually ..."
4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"116, 15 NW 693, holding, under Nebraska law, State may aid water gristmills;
Guernsey v. Burlington, 4 Dill. 375, Fed. Cas. 5855, holding fact that such ..."
5. Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing a Comprehensive View of the by Frank Place (1860)
"There are 18 sawmills, several gristmills, and 2 tanneries in town. ... E.
part, contains 1 church, 2 inns, a store, 2 sawmills, and 2 gristmills. ..."
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