Noun

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Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}

(obsolete) A group of bees.

(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.

(Jonathan Swift)

(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

(Knight)

Noun

(wikipedia grism) (en noun)

A combination of diffraction grating and prism used to obtain spectra from different parts of an image