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GRISTMILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gristmill" is a kind of...):
grinder; mill; milling machinery (machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing)
Meronyms (parts of "gristmill"):
millstone (one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain)