Definitions for querns

querns quern

Spelling: [kwurn]
IPA: /kwɜrn/

Querns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in querns (enqrsu).

Definitions for querns

noun

  1. a primitive, hand-operated mill for grinding grain.

Origin of querns

before 950; Middle English; Old English cweorn; akin to Old Norse kvern hand-mill

Examples for querns

He who presented this quern to Frothi was called Hengikioptr (hanging-chops).

He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted.

In the Norse story of Frodi's quern, the myth assumes a whimsical shape.

"It is the women singing and grinding at the quern," she said, and her feet went faster.

That quern turned out anything that the grinder chose, though formerly it had ground nothing but peace and gold.

He asked him for heaven's sake to take back the quern, and that at once.

In 1901 Dr. Munro wrote, “even the keepers of the watch-tower at the ford of Dumbuck had their quern, and ground their own corn.”

There stood his sisters by the quern, For the high-noon cakes they needs must earn.

But angels used to grind at the quern for Ciaran's sake on the day that was his.

This was their rule, that every bishop19 should grind at the quern on his day.

Word Value for querns
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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