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grist
[grist]
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.
verb (used with object)
to grind (grain).
grist
/ ɡɪ /
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
anything that can be turned to profit or advantage
Other Word Forms
- grister noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of grist1
Idioms and Phrases
grist 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.
Example Sentences
It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill.
For added populist grist, the club is located above the Milken Institute, a think tank founded by a formerly incarcerated financier, Michael Milken, and is majority owned by Ron Burkle, a billionaire investor.
This ought to be grist to the mill of the Scottish pack.
The new study contributes valuable grist for the continuing debate over the social and economic impacts of abortion restrictions.
Policy details at this stage of a campaign do little but give opponents and pundits grist for nitpicking.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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