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Another word for millstone

Noun

  1. A duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardship

    2. See also:

    over

    heavy

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Another word for millstone

Noun

  1. A grinder

    2. See also:

    tool

    grinder

  2. A burden

    3. See also:

    difficulty

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Sentence Examples

  • There are quarries of millstone in the vicinity.

  • Here, while storming the citadel, he was struck on the head by a fragment of a millstone thrown from the wall by a woman.

  • Gypsum, millstone and paving-stone are quarried in the vicinity.

  • The whole region may be looked upon as formed by an arch or anticline of Carboniferous strata, the axis of which runs north and south; the centre has been worn away by erosion, so that the Coal Measures have been removed, and the underlying Millstone Grit and Carboniferous Limestone exposed to the influences which form scenery.

  • The Coal Measures repose upon the Millstone Grit; the largest area of these rocks lies on the east, where they are conterminous with the coalfields of Yorkshire and Nottingham.

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