Definitions for millstone

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millstone mill·stone

Spelling: [mil-stohn]

IPA: /ˈmɪlˌstoʊn/

Millstone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 526 anagrams from letters in millstone (eillmnost).

Definitions for millstone

noun

1. either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
2. anything that grinds or crushes.
3. any heavy mental or emotional burden (often used in the phrase a millstone around one's neck).

Origin of millstone

before 1050; Middle English milneston, Old English mylenstān. See mill¹, stone

Examples for millstone

No one ever got anywhere with anything with such a millstone around his neck.

The hand that had pointed to the millstone about his neck had conjured it there.

As man and millstone reached the sea the storm instantly ceased.

It were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck and that he be cast into the deep.

Thus, virtue did not become a burden, nor honor a millstone.

But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss.

You have a heart harder than the millstone, more set than ice!

But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering.

Can't you see through a millstone when there is a hole in it?

He had better have a millstone round his neck, and be cast into the deepest sea.