millstone : Idioms & Phrases

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burr millstone

Burr" mill"stone`
Definitions
  1. See Buhrstone.
Webster 1913

Lava millstone

  • a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine.
Webster 1913

Millstone girt

  • (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology.
Webster 1913

To see into, ∨ through, a millstone

  • to see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)
Webster 1913