Grist

Quick meaning: Grist is a noun meaning Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

Meaning

Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
2. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
3. (figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill.
4. (transitive) To grind in a mill.
5. (obsolete) A group of bees.

Example Sentences

[…] it cleaned out two hundred and ten bushels called screenings; the balance was sold, gristed and used for seed.

[…] and another mill is erecting on the same stream near Sparrow Lake, to which a run of stones for gristing will be added.

Matter, as wise logicians say, / Cannot without a form subsist; / And form, say I, as well as they, / Must fail if matter brings no grist.

True stories are embellished, the casts of fictional dramas stuffed with unlikely non-actors. All is grist to what [Werner] Herzog calls “ecstatic truth”.

Word Forms

• grists
• gristing
• gristed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include graine, grit, grane, grain, grainer, gruit.

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