quern

He has in his hands, poised and ready, a heavy quern.

A later development was the rotary quern, which takes several forms.

He has now only to haul in the cord and bring up the quern.

A number of copper coins and a stone quern have been found from here.

In no time, out poured meal finer than any the quern had ground.

To strengthen the latter idea he takes the quern from the roof and puts it under her bed.

They were then ground into flour using a saddle quern and milling stone.

A broken or disused quern therefore can be seen as symbolic of death.

On the planet, he encounters a new leader, an albino called Quern.

She was then bludgeoned with a heavy stone quern dropped above her on the roof.

The principle of the hand quern is similar, but it is usually turned with a small wooden handle.

His action in placing the bloodstained quern under Miss Johnson's bed.

"But this is no quern," Gurgi cried when at last it was done.

A saddle quern was found in 1954 and the site was scheduled in 1958.

The earliest forms of quern were the saddle and trough querns.

The name Wharncliffe actually evolved from the term "quern cliff".

So the midnight quern ceased operating, and the men in the forest had to forage even more for their existence.

Nike's good, but I'd just as soon not match her against a Quern planetary assault force.

A stone Iron Age grain millstone (quern) was found close by.

The remains of a quern for grinding grain was also found within this central area, as was a single carved rock.

The association between quern stones and burial may be because they are used in the process of making bread, the staple of life.

I realize it was a bit before both our times, but the initial Quern attacks took the Navy completely by surprise.

Besides, from the bits and pieces we can pick up, the Quern are still operating in some force in the sector.

He fumbled with the knot of the covering then threw it back revealing a heavy great quern or grinder.

Smaller versions for household use, the rotary or beehive quern, appeared during the early Persian period.