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millstone 音标拼音: [m'ɪlst ,on] n. 磨石;重担,负担 磨石;重担,负担 millstone n 1: ( figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; " she was an albatross around his neck" [ synonym: { albatross}, { millstone}] 2: any load that is difficult to carry 3: one of a pair of heavy flat disk- shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grainMillstone \ Mill" stone`\, n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill[ 1]. [ 1913 Webster] No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. -- Deut. xxiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects. [ 1913 Webster] { Millstone girt} ( Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See { Farewell rock}, under { Farewell}, a., and Chart of { Geology}. { To see into a millstone} or { To see through a millstone}, to see into or through a difficult matter. ( Colloq.) [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " millstone": bale, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, cheese grater, comminutor, crusher, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, drag, duty, encumbrance, freight, granulator, grater, grinder, handicap, incubus, incumbency, kominuter, lading, levigator, load, loading, masher, mill, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pestle, pressure, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, saddling, shredder, steamroller, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, triturator, weight
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