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Millstones meaning
plural of millstone.
Example sentences (5)
The weight of his excessive ministerial burdens is evidence of a lack of available talent to fill Cabinet positions and an indication of millstones in the Cabinet.
A person present at the trial said that “intellectuals” are “millstones around our neck”, another wanted the USSR “to get rid of them all”.
In Europe and North America, millstones were in use until well into the 20th century, and still are in many parts of the world.
The homonymous village of Calatubo stood nearby and its commerce was based on the exportation of cereals and millstones.
This device is widely credited as the first recorded attempt to describe such a device in order to produce useful work, that of driving millstones.