Definitions for gristmill

gristmill grist·mill

Spelling: [grist-mil]
IPA: /ˈgrɪstˌmɪl/

Gristmill is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in gristmill (giillmrst).

Definitions for gristmill

noun

  1. a mill for grinding grain, especially the customer's own grain.

Origin of gristmill

First recorded in 1595-1605; grist + mill1

Examples for gristmill

They are making a windmill to saw lumber and we also have a gristmill.

Luckily the gristmill had not quite all the wheat in the world.

The "Doctor" eat his too—like a gristmill—staring at his niece all the while with the look of a pleased child.

We passed his gristmill on Mill River, the only one in the neighborhood.

It is like that invention of a Connecticut man, which utilizes the ebb and flow of the ocean-tides to turn a gristmill.

In later years a gristmill made use of the power, for some time serving the surrounding community.

It is also called Mill Cave, because a gristmill near the foot of the hill below it is run by the outflowing stream.

Then he turned around and ran down the hill as far as the gristmill.

Further down the stream was Millvale, where were three mills, one a gristmill.

A story which illustrates the extent of these activities, particularly that of the gristmill, is often related.

Word Value for gristmill
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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