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单词 quern
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quern in British English

(kwɜːn)
noun
a stone hand mill for grinding corn
Word origin
Old English cweorn; related to Old Frisian quern, Old High German kurn, Old Norse kverna, Gothic quairnus millstone

quern in American English

(kwɜrn)
noun
a primitive hand mill, esp. for grinding grain
Word origin
ME querne < OE cweorn, akin to ON kvern < IE base *gwer-, heavy > L gravis, Gr barys

Examples of 'quern' in a sentence
quern

Home was where the quern was.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
Surely the quern represents mealtimes, and with it domestic life and the family.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
Despite meticulous excavation, only two corn-grinding querns were found.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
A woman accustomed to grinding her family's daily allotment of grain on a quern stone would consider flour a convenience food.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
Grinding corn with puddingstone querns was more important to the survival in that area of our Stone Age and Roman ancestors than oil is to us today.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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