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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.
They are rather like corn between the upper and nether millstones, and they often find that they are ground down.
Men and women are being caught between the upper and the nether millstones of these conditions.
I regard them as three millstones because they have been dragging the industry down.
He is caught between the upper and the lower millstones.
There are many other millstones both in the public and private sectors of our industry.
In short, they amount to financial millstones which must be dealt with.
Such people cannot put millstones round their necks in order to get houses which would cost £2,000 or £2,500, with very high interest rates.
