quern

A primitive hand-turned grain mill.

A stone hand-mill for grinding grain.

The old hand-mill, or quern, such as Pennant sketched the Hebrides women grinding with in the last century, has not yet gone out; Dr. Mitchell says there are thousands of them at work in Scotland, where still

A hand-mill used for grinding pepper, mustard, and the like. Such querns were used even on the table, and as early as the sixteenth century.

To grind.

A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; — used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones

To grind.

a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand