Querned vs Queened - What's the difference?

querned | queened |

As verbs the difference between querned and queened

is that querned is (quern) while queened is (queen).

querned

English

Verb

(head)

(quern)

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).

queened

English

Verb

(head)

(queen)

queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)

A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

Synonyms

* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

Derived terms

* drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

Verb

To make a queen.

(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(Shakespeare)

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

* 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona

She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat