Sekirov Dictionary

grist

/ɡɹɪst/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
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(figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill.
- True stories are embellished, the casts of fictional dramas stuffed with unlikely non-actors. All is grist to what [Werner] Herzog calls “ecstatic truth”. — 2023
A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
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(old-fashioned) A group of bees.
- Swarming like a grist of bees... — 2024
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(informal, no longer used) Supply; provision.
- Matter, as wise logicians say, / Cannot without a form subsist; / And form, say I, as well as they, / Must fail if matter brings no grist. — 1719

verb1

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To grind in a mill.
- […] and another mill is erecting on the same stream near Sparrow Lake, to which a run of stones for gristing will be added. — 1861

forms

gristed · gristing · grists

Phrases with grist

grist for the mill
Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.

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