millstone betydelse and definition

Exempel på millstone

• Another early wheel, a millstone, was a heavy, round stone. 

• 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.