grist
grist
Definition
grist (grist)
noun
grain that is to be or has been ground; esp., a batch of such grain
Etymology: ME < OE, akin to OHG grist- in gristgrimmon, to gnash the teeth: for prob. IE base see grime
grist to someone's mill
anything that someone can use profitably
grist
Synonyms
grist
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- add: Let me just add some grist for the discussion mill in these areas.
- provide: Everyone she encounters, every experience she has, every sexual fantasy even, all provides grist for her mill.
- become: Instead, the story becomes grist for the mill in the ' Inciting Religious Hatred ' debate.
- bring: But since when have Social-Democrats made it a practice to bring grist to the mill of the reactionaries?
- grind: Ipswich Journal - 13th July 1778 Another story goes... An old miller called Lock was grinding grist for the farmers around.
- mix: Mashing This is the process of mixing the grist and the water in a vessel called a mash tun at around 65ÂșC.
Preposition: for
- mill: Let me just add some grist for the discussion mill in these areas.
Adjective modifier
- more: More grist for my DS Vs PSP retort I'm preparing Jon.
- precious: Really are is precious grist for want to make plays.
- further: I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
- much: That would leave only two studies, not much grist for the mill of meta-analysis there.
Modifies a noun
- mill: The Baptist Mills Brass Works ' were set up by Bristol Quakers on the site of an old grist mill on the River Frome.
- case: Each is carefully weighed out into the grist case.
- milling: This activity later ceased and it once more reverted to flour milling before converting to grist milling in the 1900s century.
- stone: The grist stones were too sharp to grind wheat, which needs to be rubbed rather than cut.
Noun used with modifier
- malt: The malt is then coarsley ground and becomes known as ' malt grist ' .
