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[ grist ] SHOW IPA
/ grɪst / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun grain to be ground.
ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
Older Use . a quantity or lot.
Idioms for gristgrist for / to one's mill , something employed to one's profit or advantage, especially something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist for her mill.
Origin of grist before 1000; Middle English, Old English; akin to Old English grindan to grind
OTHER WORDS FROM grist grister, noun Words nearby grist grisly, Gris-Nez, grison, Grisons, grissini, grist , grist for the mill, gristle, gristly, gristmill, Griswold
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Example sentences from the Web for grist And in their spare time, those cowpunchers, ranchers, and old rodeo riders will use their experiences as grist for cowboy poetry.
After 30 Years of Growth, the Cowboy Poetry Festival Tries to Keep Its Pioneer Spirit | John L. Smith| February 8, 2014| DAILY BEAST
David Roberts of Grist tweeted Sunday that Ferguson apparently isn't concerned about climate change.
Niall Ferguson and the Future | Michael Tomasky| May 6, 2013| DAILY BEAST
What might sound like grist for late-night comics is, in fact, a serious matter for a reporter.
Sheldon Adelson, the Billionaire Who Bankrupted Me | John L. Smith| February 28, 2013| DAILY BEAST
I envisioned the forensic evidence as grist for either my law class or my blog.
Stop Calling It Murder | Roy Black| September 10, 2011| DAILY BEAST
One could not help but applaud, even if the goal was grist to the glory-mill of the Dear Leader.
Can You Root for North Korea? | Tunku Varadarajan| June 15, 2010| DAILY BEAST
Adrian, for whom there was no more work that afternoon, proposed to Roger that they take a walk to Truem Wright's grist mill.
The White Crystals | Howard R. Garis
A good saw mill on the bank of the river five miles above, a grist mill worked by hand, but intended to work by water.
The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV | Various
Of course, I found a grist of men there, and they wouldn't let me go.
The Militants | Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The mood represented the grist of much subtle effort, comparing, adjustment, and readjustment.
So powerful is this incentive that sometimes the wheel will continue to turn round when there is no grist to grind.
The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner | Charles Dudley Warner
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British Dictionary definitions for grist noun grain intended to be or that has been ground the quantity of such grain processed in one grinding brewing malt grains that have been cleaned and cracked
grist to the mill , grist to one's mill , grist for the mill or grist for one's mill anything that can be turned to profit or advantage
Word Origin for grist Old English grīst; related to Old Saxon grist-grimmo gnashing of teeth, Old High German grist-grimmōn
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to grist cereal, corn, kernel, mote, morsel, whit, spark, speck, pellet, scrap, modicum, tittle, iota, jot, trace, fragment, scintilla, molecule, atom, crumb