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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 Idioms

grist to someone's mill

anything that someone can use profitably

grist Synonyms

grist

n.

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 ' .

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