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Bridgepot :: Bridgepot (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle..

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.

Grit :: Grit (n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit..

Semolina :: Semolina (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..

Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead..

Eye :: Eye (n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.

Millrynd :: Millrynd (n.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

Millstone :: Millstone (n.) One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Dress :: Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

Run :: Run (n.) A pair or set of millstones.

Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

Runner :: Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

Rynd :: Rynd (n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

Bosom :: Bosom (n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Burr Millstone :: Burr millstone () See Buhrstone.

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