Meanings
plural gristmills
- A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).
Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill
1 more example
Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.
2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).
Origin
Translations
Esperanto grenmuelejo
- grenmuelejomill that grinds grain
Estonian viljaveski
- viljaveskimill that grinds grain
French farinerie
- farineriemill that grinds grain
German Getreidemühle
- Getreidemühlemill that grinds grain
Polish młyn zbożowy
- młyn zbożowymill that grinds grain
Spanish aceña, molino harinero
- aceñamill that grinds grain
- molino harineromill that grinds grain
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with gristmill
Cite this entry
gristmill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gristmill
“gristmill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gristmill. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gristmill,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gristmill.
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