millstone in English

noun
1
each of two circular stones used for grinding grain.
On a more secular level, stone was used for a number of purposes, the most widespread being the manufacture of quern stones and millstones in water-mills.
2
a heavy and inescapable responsibility.
she threatened to become a millstone around his neck

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1. Antiseptize, MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP

2. The name molar derives from Latin, molaris dens, meaning "millstone tooth", from mola, millstone and dens, tooth.

3. The heavy millstone leaves him flat.

4. His son a millstone around [ about ] his neck.

5. He's caught between the upper and nether millstone.

6. He's between the upper and nether millstone.

7. His lazy son is a millstone round his neck.

8. My debts are a millstone around my neck.

9. He is picking the surface of a millstone.

10. For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone.

11. His son is a millstone around his neck.

12. Her lazy husband is a millstone round her neck.

13. The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper.

14. That mortgage have is like a millstone round my neck.

15. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.

16. Also written burr and called whetstone, millstone, or Buhrstone.

17. His morals have been a millstone around my neck!

18. Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.

19. My debts were like a millstone round my neck.

20. Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.

21. Crushing Wheels are the more advanced version of the Millstone

22. That mortgage has been like a millstone round my neck.

23. The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.

24. Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.

25. Get me all the dirt we have on judge Millstone, Bonnie.

26. 17 I can see into a millstone, as the saying be.

27. It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.

28. False religion will disappear, like a millstone thrown into the sea. —Revelation 18:21.

29. Millstone has removed all the radioactive fuel in the reactor to permit repairs.

30. His lazy son, who refuses to do any work, is a millstone round his neck.

31. Buhrstone, bur(r)stone, millstone, burr [A siliceous rock suitable for use as millstones, e.g

32. 152 [ previous page ] Blazon Badge / Insignia On a millstone a Siberian tiger's head erased proper;

33. At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.

34. Previous to Gary's current city of Millstone Township, NJ, Gary Baldachino lived in Trenton NJ and Chesterfield NJ

35. The wind-driven sails of this new invention turned a vertical axle that was attached to a millstone.

36. He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.

37. The three abrasive rollers are distributed at the roller path of the millstone uniformly, and are fixedly to the loading rack.

38. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Antiseptize and is located at 6 Cranburybrook Drive, Millstone, NJ 08535.

39. Joanne Baldachino Jackson -Joanne Baldachino, 79, was a current resident Jackson Township who raised her family in Millstone Township for over 30 …

40. The seal of Oslo shows the city's patron saint, St. Hallvard, with his attributes, the millstone and arrows, with a naked woman at his feet.

41. The Associated Auxiliaries are comprised of five community groups: Friends of Covered Bridge, Freehold Borough & Township, Manalapan/Englishtown/Marlboro, Millstone Township, and The Villages.

42. A person who causes someone to stumble would be better off if he fell into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck

43. The area lies on Millstone Grit; the lower slopes are covered with boulder clay and some alluvial deposits; there are also signs of glacial drift.

44. 22 It had been abetter for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea.

45. Their other name, Mola mola, is -- it sounds Hawaiian, but it's actually Latin for millstone, and that's attributable to their roundish, very bizarre, cut- off shape.

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47. 2 It would be more advantageous for him if a millstone were hung from his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to stumble one of these little ones.

48. A hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone a grindstone or millstone made of this rock Word Origin for Buhrstone C18 burr, perhaps identical to burr 1 (alluding …

49. 21 And a strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: “Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.

50. Millstone grit, a distinctive coarse-grained rock used to make millstones, is widespread in the Pennines, and the variety of other rock types is reflected in the architecture of the region, such as the bright red sandstone seen in buildings in Chester, the cream-buff Yorkstone and the distinctive purple Doddington sandstone.