grist
See also: Grist
English
Etymology
From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹɪst/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)
- Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
- 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift: An Essay on English Bubbles, volume 8:
- That it will, however, cause the subscribers to wish, in their minds, for many oaths to fly about, which is a heinous crime, and to lay stratagems to try the patience of men of all sorts; to put them upon the swearing strain, in order to bring grist to their own mill, which is a crime still more enormous; and that therefore, for fear of these evil consequences, the passing of such an act is not consistent with the really extraordinary and tender conscience of a true modern politician.
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- (obsolete) A group of bees.
- (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
- 1719, Jonathan Swift, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1, volume 1:
- 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.
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- (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Derived terms
- grist mill / gristmill
- grist for the mill (chiefly US)
- grist to the mill (chiefly UK)
Related terms
- gristle
Translations
grain that is to be ground in a mill
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Verb
grist (third-person singular simple present grists, present participle gristing, simple past and past participle gristed)
- (transitive) To grind in a mill.
- 1861, Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Province of Canada
- […] and another mill is erecting on the same stream near Sparrow Lake, to which a run of stones for gristing will be added.
- 1892, Annual report of the Department of Indian Affairs (page 70)
- […] it cleaned out two hundred and ten bushels called screenings; the balance was sold, gristed and used for seed.
- 1861, Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Province of Canada
Anagrams
- Grits, girts, grits, strig, trigs
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
grist
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of grissen
- (archaic) plural imperative of grissen
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- grisa, griset
Verb
grist
- past participle of grise
Slovene
Verb
grȋst
- supine of gristi