millstone Significado & definición

Significado de millstone en español

• 0 one of a pair of large, circular, flat stones used, especially in the past, to crush grain to make flour -- muela, piedra de molino

• 1 one of the two large, heavy stones used in an old-fashioned mill for grinding grain. -- piedra de molino

• 2 (usually with round one’s/the neck) something that is a heavy burden or responsibility, and prevents easy progress -- carga enorme

  • He regarded his brother as a millstone round his neck.