millstone
either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
anything that grinds or crushes.
any heavy mental or emotional burden (often used in the phrase a millstone around one's neck).
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How to use millstone in a sentence
This is perhaps my most Chronically Online Hot Take, but Musk seems to have bought a millstone, not a cultural touchstone.
I made it big on Twitter. Now I don’t think I can stay. | Mikki Kendall | October 28, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewStart-ups sputtered, and the stock options employees hoped would make them millionaires instead became millstones.
Unlike in the 1990s, the Taliban no longer have a millstone around their neck in the form of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind and wealthy Saudi financier who effectively bought his sanctuary in Afghanistan by bankrolling the group.
But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering.
But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss.
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousIn other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneHe owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.
Julian Home | Dean Frederic W. FarrarIt was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado | Frank AubreyI soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de Rougemont
British Dictionary definitions for millstone
/ (ˈmɪlˌstəʊn) /
one of a pair of heavy flat disc-shaped stones that are rotated one against the other to grind grain
a heavy burden, such as a responsibility or obligation: his debts were a millstone round his neck
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