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A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage)..
Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill
Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.
Use gristmill when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gristmill means A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage)..
Common synonyms include flourmill, feed mill.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill
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