Crossword-Solution: QUERNS
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
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BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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Sentences with QUERNS (5)
They could hull rice in their mortars, but they knew nothing of the heavy stone querns of the North, and less of the material that the white man convoyed so laboriously.
Usually it consists of sundry articles of dress and ornament, furniture (matting and bedding carpets, divans, cushions and kitchen utensils), to which the Badawi add "Girbahs" (water-skins), querns, and pestles with mortars.
The flat dayoorl-stones on which the seeds are ground with the smaller stone, are like the 'saddle-stone querns' occasionally found in ancient British sites.
These primitive appliances preceded the circular rotatory querns in evolution, and as the monuments prove were used in ancient Egypt.
Querns with the top circular stone turned by hand over the bottom stone were used for grinding grain.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).