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"word": "burr millstone"
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"word": "albatross around one's neck"
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"ref": "1744, J[ohn] T[heophilus] Desaguliers, “Lecture XII. On Engines, especially Hydrostatical and Hydraulick Machines.”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, volume II, London: Printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; M. Senex, in Fleet-street; and T[homas] Longman, in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, page 429:",
"text": "As it is the circular Motion of the Mill-ſtone which brings the Corn out of the Hopper by Jerks, and with a Velocity depending upon that of the Stone, other Grains are always ſucceeding, which raiſe it anew, and the Flower just made being no longer preſs'd is carry'd away into the Boulting Mill by the Circulation of Air that the Mill-ſtone puts into motion, which makes a whirling there.",
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"ref": "1815, Emanuel Swedenborg, “[Book of Revelation,] Chapter XVIII”, in John Clowes, transl., The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelations, Explained According to the Spiritual Sense; in which are Revealed the Arcana which are there Predicted, and have been hitherto Deeply Concealed: Translated into English from a Latin Posthumous Work, of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg [by William Hill]; and Revised by the Translator of the Arcana Cœlestia [John Clowes], volume VI, London: Printed and sold for the Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, instituted in London in the year 1810; by E. Hodson, 15, Cross Street, Hatton Garden; sold also by T. Goyder, 8, Charles Street, Westminster; and may be had of all booksellers in town and country, →OCLC, page 149, paragraph 1182:",
"text": "The reason why a mill-stone signifies confirmation from the Word in both senses, is, because wheat signifies good, and fine flour the truth thereof, hence by a mill-stone, by which wheat is ground into fine flour, or barley into meal, is signified the production of truth from good, or the production of what is false from evil, thus also the confirmation of truth or what is false from the Word; […]",
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"ref": "1998, Colin Spencer, “Aquatic Ape Theory. How Early Did Fish Enter the Diet?”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Fish: Food from the Waters: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1997, Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 307:",
"text": "We can tell what Australopithecines ate from the remains of their jaws and teeth. The earliest finds show teeth which are large and round like millstones – acting as grinding and pulverizing machines for fibrous vegetation.",
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"A large round stone used for grinding grain."
],
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "երկանաքար"
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "errotarri"
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"roman": "žarón",
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"word": "жо́рны"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"roman": "vodeníčen kámǎk",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "водени́чен ка́мък"
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"word": "mola"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shímò",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "石磨"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "磨石"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "mlýnský kámen"
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"lang": "Dalmatian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "mucna"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"word": "møllesten"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "molensteen"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "veskikivi"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "myllynkivi"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "meule"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "fur",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"word": "muele"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moa"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"roman": "dolabi",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "დოლაბი"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣iskvilis kva",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "წისქვილის ქვა"
},
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Mühlstein"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "asiluqairnus",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌵𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃"
},
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mylópetra",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μυλόπετρα"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "múlos",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μύλος"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "rekháyim",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"dual",
"masculine"
],
"word": "רחיים \\ רֵחַיִם"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "malomkő"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvarnarsteinn"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"word": "myllusteinn"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"word": "mola"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mola"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "macina"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"alt": "ひきうす",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikiusu",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "碾き臼"
},
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"word": "ひき臼"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "thmɑɑtbal",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "ថ្មត្បាល់"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "maetdol",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "맷돌"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "berdaş",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "بەرداش"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "mola"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "dzirnakmens"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "girnos"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "ме́лник"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvernstein"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "møllestein"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvernstein"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "møllestein"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "mòla"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "жрьновъ"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "cu",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"feminine"
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},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "değirmen taşı",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "دكرمن طاشی"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "raha",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "رحی"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âs",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "آس"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kamień młyński"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mó"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piatră de moară"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žórnov",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "жёрнов"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "moa"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "mola"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sc",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "mora"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"word": "жрвањ"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "scn",
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"word": "mola"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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],
"word": "mlynský kameň"
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"_dis1": "89 9 2",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "žarnov"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mlinski kamen"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muela"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvarnsten"
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{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "batong-gilingan"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 9 2",
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "ថ្មត្បាល់"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "maetdol",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "맷돌"
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{
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"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "berdaş",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "بەرداش"
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"word": "dzirnakmens"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"masculine"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mélnik",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ме́лник"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ókno",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "cu",
"lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
"roman": "žrĭnovŭ",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"lang": "Church Slavic",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "değirmen taşı",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "دكرمن طاشی"
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"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "raha",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "رحی"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âs",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "آس"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
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"word": "mó"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "moa"
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"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "mola"
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{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "mora"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
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},
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muela"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "kvarnsten"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "batong-gilingan"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "gilingang bato"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "môo",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "โม่"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "değirmen taşı"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "žórno",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "жо́рно"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moła"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "đá cối"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "large round stone used for grinding grain",
"word": "mülaston"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kvarcíten pjásǎčnik",
"sense": "coarse-grained sandstone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кварци́тен пя́съчник"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "coarse-grained sandstone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hrubozrnný pískovec"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "coarse-grained sandstone",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meulière"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "téžǎk továr",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "те́жък това́р"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "heavy responsibility",
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"masculine"
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"word": "mlýnský kámen na krku"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "møllesten om halsen"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "heavy responsibility",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "molensteen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
"word": "riippa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
"word": "taakka"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Klotz am Bein"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "téžok tóvar",
"sense": "heavy responsibility",
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],
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},
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"code": "sv",
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"Dalgarven Mill – Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume",
"North Ayrshire"
],
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On Engines, especially Hydrostatical and Hydraulick Machines.”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, volume II, London: Printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; M. 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On Engines, especially Hydrostatical and Hydraulick Machines.”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, volume II, London: Printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; M. Senex, in Fleet-street; and T[homas] Longman, in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, page 429:\", \"text\": \"As it is the circular Motion of the Mill-ſtone which brings the Corn out of the Hopper by Jerks, and with a Velocity depending upon that of the Stone, other Grains are always ſucceeding, which raiſe it anew, and the Flower just made being no longer preſs'd is carry'd away into the Boulting Mill by the Circulation of Air that the Mill-ſtone puts into motion, which makes a whirling there.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1815, Emanuel Swedenborg, “[Book of Revelation,] Chapter XVIII”, in John Clowes, transl., The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelations, Explained According to the Spiritual Sense; in which are Revealed the Arcana which are there Predicted, and have been hitherto Deeply Concealed: Translated into English from a Latin Posthumous Work, of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg [by William Hill]; and Revised by the Translator of the Arcana Cœlestia [John Clowes], volume VI, London: Printed and sold for the Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, instituted in London in the year 1810; by E. Hodson, 15, Cross Street, Hatton Garden; sold also by T. Goyder, 8, Charles Street, Westminster; and may be had of all booksellers in town and country, →OCLC, page 149, paragraph 1182:\", \"text\": \"The reason why a mill-stone signifies confirmation from the Word in both senses, is, because wheat signifies good, and fine flour the truth thereof, hence by a mill-stone, by which wheat is ground into fine flour, or barley into meal, is signified the production of truth from good, or the production of what is false from evil, thus also the confirmation of truth or what is false from the Word; […]\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1998, Colin Spencer, “Aquatic Ape Theory. How Early Did Fish Enter the Diet?”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Fish: Food from the Waters: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1997, Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 307:\", \"text\": \"We can tell what Australopithecines ate from the remains of their jaws and teeth. The earliest finds show teeth which are large and round like millstones – acting as grinding and pulverizing machines for fibrous vegetation.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}], \"glosses\": [\"A large round stone used for grinding grain.\"], \"links\": [[\"large\", \"large\"], [\"round\", \"round\"], [\"stone\", \"stone\"], [\"grind\", \"grind\"], [\"grain\", \"grain\"]]}, {\"categories\": [\"English terms with quotations\", \"en:Geology\"], \"examples\": [{\"ref\": \"1832, Amos Eaton, Geological Text-book, for Aiding the Study of North American Geology: Being a Systematic Arrangement of Facts, Collected by the Author and His Pupils, under the Patronage of the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, 2nd edition, Albany, N.Y.: Published by Websters and Skinners, New York, N.Y.: G. and C. and H. Carvill, Troy, N.Y.: William S. Parker, N. Tuttle, printer, →OCLC, pages 92–93:\", \"text\": \"In North America the millstone grit, and a grey sandy and slaty rock beneath it, occur three times; and it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish these rocks in hand specimens, without the aid of organized remains. And remains are almost exclusively confined to the grey rocks. Common quarrymen, farmers, and foreign geologists, apply the names, greywracke and millstone, to all these rocks promiscuously; neither having observed their different relative positions.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1869, A. H. Green, C[lement] le Neve Foster, J. R. Dakyns, “Lower Coal-measures or Ganister-beds”, in The Geology of the Carboniferous Limestone, Yoredale Rocks, and Millstone Grit of North Derbyshire and the Adjoining Parts of Yorkshire. 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