Grindstones
[graɪnd,stəʊnz]
Examples
- For the dressing of the faces of grindstones, special forms of cutting machines have been devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Shipments were growing larger, and materials like grindstones, bought outside, had to be brought from the canal to Ilion Gulph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The power was taken from a water wheel in Steele’s Creek, and the first grindstones for smoothing down the welded edges in gun barrels were cut from a red sandstone ledge up the gorge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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