| 单词 | pot-quern |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspot-quern pot-quern n. a pot-shaped quern. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > hand-mill quernOE hand mill1523 quern mill1590 kibbling-mill1826 pot-quern1851 mano1901 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. vii. 152 A more artificial, though very ancient form of hand-mill, is what is called the Pot Querne. 1894 Nottingham. & Derbys. Notes & Queries Aug. 109 A portion of a pot-quern,..found at Breaston. 1987 Mod. Philol. 84 245 (note) The more usual Germanic type of quern may have been the pot-quern, ‘one in which the upper stone revolves inside a hollow cylindrical lower stone’. < as lemmas |
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