Definition of "quernstone" []

• Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand (noun)

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• "At Sewerby, in East Yorkshire, a woman with rich grave goods had been buried in a deep grave, and a second woman had been buried a few inches above her at the same time, laid face down and with a piece of a quernstone over her pelvis."
• ""My word has been given, and I should be a craven if I stayed away now, just because an old crone sitting at a quernstone tells me I am going into a trap.""
• "It would be beneficial for Japan if such a fellow were tied to a quernstone and dumped into the sea."