quern
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
quern (plural querns)
- A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.
- 2005, Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960, page 100 ↗,
- MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).
- 2009, Charles D. Hockensmith, The Millstone Industry, page 212 ↗,
- Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.
- 2005, Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960, page 100 ↗,
- French: moulin à bras
- German: Handmühle, Querne
- Italian: macinatoio a mano
- Russian: ручной
- Spanish: molino de mano, molino portátil
quern (querns, present participle querning; past and past participle querned)
- (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.
- 1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, 2011, unnumbered page ↗,
- He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
- 2000, Tina Tuohy, 9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User, Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe (editors), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, page 141 ↗,
- For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning, leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.
- 2009, Greer Gilman, Unleaving, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 262 ↗,
- Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.
- 2011, Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, 17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent, Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada (editors), Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide, page 401 ↗,
- From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29).
- 1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, 2011, unnumbered page ↗,
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