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Definition of Querns
1. quern [n] - See also: quern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Querns
Literary usage of Querns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Corn Milling by Richard Bennett, John Elton (1898)
"antiquity; but the presence of the querns suggests that it was occupied at ...
querns are found constructed of all these materials, often fashioned on the ..."
2. History of Corn Milling by Richard Bennett, John Elton (1898)
"CHAPTER IX. MEDIAEVAL SUPPRESSION OF querns. SUPPRESSION ^ PASSING allusion has
already been made, re- OF querns, specting querns and ..."
3. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"Resting the opinion on what 1 have personally seen, I should be inclined to think
that a census of the querns still in use in Scotland would show their ..."
4. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1908)
"A STORE OF querns.—The late Dr. HB Hewetson, of Leeds, whilst living at Easington
during the summer months collected a fine series of ancient querns or ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"J. Huband Smith, Esq. read a paper " on the different kinds of querns used by
the Irish." Having lately presented to the Academy, as a contribution to their ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"In the same article it is stated that, in 1862, Mr. Stanley found other remains
of querns. A portion of the lower stone of a quern of millstone-grit was ..."
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