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Definition of Millstone

1. Noun. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps. "She was an albatross around his neck"

2. Noun. Any load that is difficult to carry.

3. Noun. One of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.

Definition of Millstone

1. n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Definition of Millstone

1. Noun. A large round stone used for grinding grain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Millstone

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Medical Definition of Millstone

1. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge." (Deut. Xxiv. 6) The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects. Millstone girt, a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, and Chart of Geology. To see into, or through, a millstone, to see into or through a difficult matter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millstone

milliwatts milliweber milliwebers millosevichite millosevichites millpond millponds millrace millraces millrind

millrinds millrun millruns mills around mills of the gods grind slowly millstone (current term) millstones millstream millstreams milltail

milltails millwheel millwheels millwork millworker millworkers millworks millwright millwrights milnacipran

Literary usage of Millstone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1869)
"Epoch of the millstone grit; 2. Epoch of the Coal measures. 1. EPOCH OF THE millstone GRIT (14 a). I. Rocks: kinds and distribution. ..."

2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"EPOCH OF THE millstone GRIT (14a). I. Rocks : kinds and distribution. ... This millstone grit'extends over parts of some of the southern counties of New ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"millstone used lor a Ferry (Л). The saint who crossed the Irish Sea on a millstone was ... Bid Oloi'ter think on this, and he will weep- Aye, millstone», ..."

4. Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution by Charles Davis Platt (1896)
"The B/itish have come to millstone. Why have they come ? ... For mischief, no doubt ; All the men cleared out When the British came into millstone. ..."

5. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1894)
"millstone BIVER. This is the next and one of the moat important branches of the ... The upper millstone, above the junction of Stony brook, partakes of the ..."

6. An American Geological Railway Guide: Giving the Geological Formation at by James Macfarlane (1890)
"millstone Grit.—This is a mass of white or yellow sandstone, ... It is called the millstone Grit, from being used for the manufacture of millstones. ..."

7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The Pennsylvanian system includes the Pottsville conglomerate (millstone grit) below and the Coal Measures above. THE POTTSVILLE CONGLOMERATE (millstone ..."

8. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818)
"millstone without Shells. This formation consists of iron-shot clayey sand, ... This millstone is a quartz, containing a multitude of irregular cavities ..."

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