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Definitions
a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
Word origin
From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).
Used in a sentence
“She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.”
“MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).”
“Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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