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"Grain grinder"2 answers
miller6 lettersmillstone9 letters
Filled answer is this word (MILLSTONE).
Definitions
one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
Word origin
From Middle English mylneston, milneston, from Old English mylenstān (“millstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu + *stain; equivalent to mill + stone; cognate with Danish møllesten, Middle Dutch molensteen (modern Dutch molensteen), West Frisian molestien, Norwegian Bokmål møllestein, Old Saxon mulinstēn (Middle Low German mȫlenstēn), Old High German mulinstein, mülstein (Middle High German mülstein, modern German Mühlstein).
Used in a sentence
“Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks.”
“[H]owever great and powerful England may be, the strain of such entanglements cannot but tell on her, and one day she may find herself in a predicament in which India may simply hang as a mill-stone round her neck.”
“Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Grain grinder”9 letters
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