n.
A primitive hand-turned grain mill.
[Middle English querne, from Old English cweorn.]
quern
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quern (kwûrn) 
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n.
A primitive hand-turned grain mill.
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Pair of grinding stones used for pulverizing grain (from about 4000-2000 bc). The lower stone was slightly hollowed and the upper stone was rolled by hand on the lower one.
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[Ar]
A hand-operated device used for grinding corn to produce flour. Querns consist of two coarse stones (quernstones), usually granite, sandstone, or a conglomerate, set one above the other and rubbed together with the corn in between. The lower stone is usually fixed and stationary while the upper stone is moved either in a rotary motion (rotary quern) or by a push–pull motion (saddle quern). Mechanical querns operated with the help of animal, water, or wind power are referred to as mill. See also metate.
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a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
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