Definitions for grist

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IPA: /grɪst/

Grist is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in grist (girst).

Definitions for grist

noun

1. grain to be ground.
2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4. Older Use. a quantity or lot.

Idioms

1. grist for / to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, especially something seemingly unpromising:

verb (used with object)

1. to grind (grain).

Origin of grist

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; akin to Old English grindan to grind

Examples for grist

So that choir troubles are to us only a part of the grist that keeps the mill going.

Some time after, Bishop asked me if my father would grind her grist for her?

Behold, then, hungry novel-monger, what grist is here for the mill!

One could not help but applaud, even if the goal was grist to the glory-mill of the Dear Leader.

If I were a novelist now all this would be grist for my mill.

What might sound like grist for late-night comics is, in fact, a serious matter for a reporter.

David Roberts of grist tweeted Sunday that Ferguson apparently isn't concerned about climate change.

I envisioned the forensic evidence as grist for either my law class or my blog.

And in their spare time, those cowpunchers, ranchers, and old rodeo riders will use their experiences as grist for cowboy poetry.

Verily, the mills of the gods grind slowly, but what a grist they grind!