grind (noun)

  • 71grist — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grīst; akin to Old English grindan to grind Date: before 12th century 1. a. grain or a batch of grain for grinding b. the product obtained from a grist of grain including the flour or meal and the… …

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  • 72maelstrom — noun Etymology: obsolete Dutch (now maalstroom), from malen to grind + strom stream Date: 1682 1. a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius 2. something resembling a maelstrom in turbulence …

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  • 73muller — noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English molour, probably from mullen to grind Date: 1612 a stone or piece of wood, metal, or glass used as a pestle for pounding or grinding …

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  • 74multure — noun Etymology: Middle English multyr, from Anglo French multure, molture, literally, grinding, from Vulgar Latin *molitura, from Latin molitus, past participle of molere to grind more at meal Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish a fee for… …

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  • 75tahini — noun Etymology: Arabic dialect ṭaḥīna, from ṭaḥana to grind Date: 1950 a smooth paste of sesame seeds …

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  • 76dorro — (noun)) 1) a trailing cord with hooked lines attached used in catching cod, mackerel, ling, etc., jigged while the boat is rowed slowly along (Scottish dialect); (verb) 2) to fish with a dorro (Scottish dialect); (verb) 3) to fish in shallow… …

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  • 77stupa — noun /ˈstuːpə/ a) A dome shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas. b) mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, r …

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  • 78emery — noun /ˈɛməɹi,ˈɛməɻi/ An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing. It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a… …

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  • 79cremulator — noun Device to grind the bone fragments that remain after cremation into fine powder. A machine called a cremulator reduces the fragments of bone to a fine ash …

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  • 80gizzard — noun /ˈɡɪzəd/ A portion of the esophagus of either a bird or an annelid that contains ingested grit and is used to grind up ingested food before it is transferred to the stomach …

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