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millstone    音标拼音: [m'ɪlst,on]
n. 磨石;重担,负担

磨石;重担,负担

millstone
n 1: (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was
an albatross around his neck" [synonym: {albatross},
{millstone}]
2: any load that is difficult to carry
3: one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are
rotated against one another to grind the grain

Millstone \Mill"stone`\, n.
One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other
substance in a mill[1].
[1913 Webster]

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to
pledge. --Deut. xxiv.
6.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually
employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as
that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough
texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a
series of radial grooves in which the powdered material
collects.
[1913 Webster]

{Millstone girt} (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty
sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the
Subcarboniferous strata. See {Farewell rock}, under
{Farewell}, a., and Chart of {Geology}.

{To see into a millstone} or {To see through a millstone}, to
see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)
[1913 Webster]

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "millstone":
bale, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging,
cheese grater, comminutor, crusher, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight,
drag, duty, encumbrance, freight, granulator, grater, grinder,
handicap, incubus, incumbency, kominuter, lading, levigator, load,
loading, masher, mill, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, onus,
oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pestle, pressure,
pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, saddling,
shredder, steamroller, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax,
taxing, triturator, weight


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