grist
See also: Grist
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English grist, gryst, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), from a derivative of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”). More at gristle.
Pronunciation
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.
- (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.
- (ropemaking) 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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Translations
grain that is to be ground in a mill
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Verb
grist
- (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of grissen
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of grissen
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Verb
grist
- past participle of grise
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