Crossword-Solution: MILLSTONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Millstone | n. | One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MILLSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Figuratively, a burden. | 1 answer |
| Heavy handicap | 1 answer |
| Huge burden | 1 answer |
| Load that is difficult to carry | 1 answer |
| any load that is difficult to carry | 1 answer |
| Burden, so to speak | 2 answers |
| Unwanted weight | 2 answers |
| quern | 3 answers |
| Heavy burden | 4 answers |
| BOXER HANDICAP | 10 answers |
| Albatross | 14 answers |
| Load. | 45 answers |
| Burden | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MILLSTONE (5)
But the moment had now arrived when earth and all his treasures were gliding from before his eyes, and when the savage Baron’s heart, though hard as a nether millstone, became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
CHAPTER XVI The Homing Pigeon "A millstone and the human heart, Are ever driven round, And if they've nothing else to grind, They must themselves be ground." It seemed to me that my mother was the person who really could have been excused for having heart trouble.
His thoughts continually recurred to his pecuniary embarrassments, and the debt which he owed to Duval seemed to hang like a millstone around his neck.
Left to fight the world alone, with the millstone of her shame around her neck, she had sunk ever lower and lower.
One no longer feels like the bored mortal who has all winter turned the millstone of work and pleasure, but seems to have transmigrated into a new body, endowed with a ravenous appetite and perfectly fresh sensations.
Quotes with MILLSTONE (3)
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
I treat my writing life like a fabulous, enchanting lover, because that is what it is to me. Something that is terribly time consuming, delicious and time-stopping. I have missed important meetings for love, and I will continue to put my writing life in the same position. My writing life is the lover at the center, not the neglected cranky demanding millstone, my ball and chain. When you are love, truly and passionately, you don't have to write down in your daily schedule "Sp…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1958–2015).