millstone

Speech parts

1. millstone - Noun

2. Millstone - Proper noun

Meaning

One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

whetstone moulin moline grindstone responsibility burden liability albatross onus encumbrance gooney dead weight grater mollymawk incommodity

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Antonyms

service addition advantage benefit assistance assist

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Hypernyms

stone load check burden loading deterrent

Phrases with the word

millstone round become a millstone around your neck

Examples

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. Eric Rücker Eddison

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at. Thomas Henry Huxley

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene

A millstone gathers no moss. German Proverb

Like a millstone dressed in a kimono. Japanese Proverb

A good millstone does not meet a good miller. Kikuyu Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Millsap Millspaugh millstead millstone round millstream Millstreet