Definition of "gristmill" [grist•mill]

• A mill for grinding grain. (noun)

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• "Somehow or other he heard that there was a place on Swift River called the gristmill, where there was almost all the wheat in the world -- at least that is what Frisky heard."
• "In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down."
• "Each of them has the power to exert enormous influence over the gristmill through which government funding is pulverized into short and long term support."