Grist
[grɪst] or [ɡrɪst]
Definition
(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
(n.) Supply; provision.
(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Edited by Janet
Definition
n. corn for grinding at one time: supply: profit.—n. Grist′-mill a mill for grinding grain.—Bring grist to the mill to be a source of profit.
Typed by Gladys
Examples
- Duncan was manager of a little flour and grist mill in Iowa. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A view of life in which man obediently allows himself to be made grist for somebody else's mill is the poorest kind of preparation for the work of self-government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A description of the most important of these inventions was published by him in 1795 in a book entitled _The Young Millwright and Miller's Grist_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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