millstone – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: hindrance,
handicap,
balk,
check,
impediment,
deterrent,
hinderance,
baulk,
loading,
load,
burden,
stone
millstone
n.
either of a pair of heavy circular stones between which a grainy substance is ground, grindstone; emotional weight, burden
Millstone
Millstones or
mill stones are stones used in
grist mills, for grinding
wheat or other grains.
millstone
Noun
1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck"
(synonym) albatross
(hypernym) hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap
2. any load that is difficult to carry
(hypernym) load, loading, burden
3. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
(hypernym) stone
(part-holonym) gristmill
Millstone
(n.)
One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
millstone
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
