Apakah maksud millstone dalam Bahasa Inggeris dan Apakah definisi millstone?

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millstone Maksud & Definisi

0 one of the two large, heavy stones used in an old-fashioned mill for grinding grain. -- batu pengisar
1 (usually with round one’s/the neck) something that is a heavy burden or responsibility, and prevents easy progress -- beban berat
- He regarded his brother as a millstone round his neck.

The mill had a 4.5m backshot wheel, and water-power was once harnessed for bellows for lead-smelting, then from around 1750 to drive millstones to grind grain.
They were ground between the upper and the nether millstones.
They are millstones hanging on the back of the city, and they are getting heavier.
I wonder whether we are being ground between the upper and the nether millstones.
They put millstones round their necks in the process.
In a war, when it rages, they are ground and powdered almost between two heavy millstones.
I feel it will be one of the greatest millstones ever hung round the neck of that long-suffering industry.
Surely there should be some provision for him to escape from being ground between these two millstones.