gristmill

n. 磨粉厂

词形变化

gristmills 复数 gristmills

别名

grist mill

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).

    Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill

    Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

mill grinder

部分词 1

millstone

词源

From grist + mill.

来源：wiktionary