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Mill vs Quern - What's the difference?

mill | quern |

In transitive terms the difference between mill and quern

is that mill is to engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin) while quern is to grind; to use a quern.

As a proper noun Mill

is {{surname}.

mill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  • The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  • A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
  • A machine for grinding and polishing.
  • A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  • A building housing such a plant.
  • An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
  • (label) an engine
  • (label) a boxing match, fistfight
    • {{quote-book, year=1914
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  • (label) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
  • (label) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  • (label) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  • A milling cutter.
  • (label) A card or deck that relies on the strategy of putting cards directly from the draw pile into the discard pile.
    • Synonyms
    * factory, works
    Derived terms
    {{der3, , cog mill , miller , millhouse , milling , mill race, millrace , millstone , mill wheel, millwheel , paper mill , pecker mill , pulp mill , rice mill , rolling mill , run-of-the-mill , rumor mill, rumour mill , steel mill , trouble at t' mill , watermill , windmill}}

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.
  • One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
    • Synonyms
    * (one thousandth part) permille,
    Coordinate terms
    * (one thousandth part) * percent * basis point
    Derived terms
    * millage

    Etymology 3

    From the noun .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  • (label) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  • (label) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  • To move about in an aimless fashion.
  • To swim underwater.
  • To beat; to pound.
  • * Rudyard Kipling
    • (Thackeray)
  • To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  • To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  • To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  • (label) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
    • Synonyms
    * (move about in an aimless fashion) roam, wander
    Derived terms
    * millable * nonmilled * unmilled

    References

    * *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "mill") * ----

    quern

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones
  • * 1978 , Robert Nye, Merlin ,
    • She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
  • * 2005 , Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960 , page 100,
    • MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).
  • * 2009 , Charles D. Hockensmith, The Millstone Industry , page 212,
    • Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grind; to use a quern .
  • * 1979 , , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
  • * 2000 , Tina Tuohy, 9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User'', Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe (editors), ''Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective , page 141,
    • For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning , leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.
  • * 2009 , , Unleaving'', ''Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales , page 262,
    • Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.
  • * 2011 , Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, 17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent'', Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada (editors), ''Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide , page 401,
    • From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29).

    See also

    * quirn