She must make the butter and the cheese, grind the wheat in the quern, make and bake the bread, and in all ways earn her livelihood hard enough. Miryam sweeps the milled wheat out of her quern, pours in a new load of kernels. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.-Volume I The feeding apparatus consists of a kind of quern for grinding corn, especially maize, 'It's all one where I got it from you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.' The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare "It's all one where I got it from you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough."Īnd Parkinson's account is to the same effect: "The seeds hereof, ground between two stones, fitted for the purpose, and called a quern, with some good vinegar added to it to make it liquid and running, is that kind of Mustard that is usually made of all sorts to serve as sauce both for fish and flesh." noun a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand.noun A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stonesįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand - used before the invention of windmills and watermills.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.Such querns were used even on the table, and as early as the sixteenth century.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun A hand-mill used for grinding pepper, mustard, and the like.Mitchell says there are thousands of them at work in Scotland, where still noun The old hand-mill, or quern, such as Pennant sketched the Hebrides women grinding with in the last century, has not yet gone out Dr.noun A stone hand-mill for grinding grain.noun A primitive hand-turned grain mill.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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