Crossword-Solution: GRISTMILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gristmill | n. | A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GRISTMILL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Flour-making plant--the Greek geographer Strabo wrote about one! | 1 answer |
| Old-time factory. | 1 answer |
| Place for ginding grain | 1 answer |
| Place for grinding grain. | 1 answer |
| Flour producer | 3 answers |
| Grain processor | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRISTMILL (5)
The light could not have been good, though if I brought my books to the little gable window that overlooked the groaning and whistling gristmill I could see well enough.
There was a mill-dam below and down the stream she could hear the creaking of a water-wheel, and she could see it dripping and shining in the sun--a gristmill! She thought of Uncle Billy and ole Hon, and in spite of a little pang of home-sickness she felt no loneliness at all.
Ezra Phelps and Israel Goodrich, the former the owner of the new gristmill at “Mill Hollow,” a mile west of the village, the other a substantial farmer, with their corduroy coats and knee-breeches, blue woolen hose and steel shoe buckles, are the most socially considerable and respectably attired persons present.
Ezra wore his working suit, sprinkled with the meal dust of his gristmill, and Israel had on a long blue-woolen farmer's smock, reaching to his knees, and carried in his hand a hickory-handled whip with a long lash, indicating that he had come in his cart, which he had presumably left hitched to the rail fence in front of the house.
The seeds--all the seeds, in fact, he eats--pass at once into his crop, or the natural "hopper" to his "gristmill," where they undergo a moistening or macerating process previous to being ground into the finest pulp in the gizzard.
Quotes with GRISTMILL (1)
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time — the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes — and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how tha…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1966–2016).