grist
noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of grist
Related Words for grist
cereal, corn, kernel, mote, morsel, whit, spark, speck, pellet, scrap, modicum, tittle, iota, jot, trace, fragment, scintilla, molecule, atom, crumbExamples from the Web for grist
Contemporary Examples of grist
And in their spare time, those cowpunchers, ranchers, and old rodeo riders will use their experiences as grist for cowboy poetry.
After 30 Years of Growth, the Cowboy Poetry Festival Tries to Keep Its Pioneer SpiritJohn L. Smith
February 8, 2014
David Roberts of Grist tweeted Sunday that Ferguson apparently isn't concerned about climate change.
What might sound like grist for late-night comics is, in fact, a serious matter for a reporter.
I envisioned the forensic evidence as grist for either my law class or my blog.
One could not help but applaud, even if the goal was grist to the glory-mill of the Dear Leader.
Historical Examples of grist
Verily, the mills of the gods grind slowly, but what a grist they grind!
Over the Rocky Mountains to AlaskaCharles Warren Stoddard
Behold, then, hungry novel-monger, what grist is here for the mill!
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar TupperMartin Farquhar Tupper
So that choir troubles are to us only a part of the grist that keeps the mill going.
In Our TownWilliam Allen White
If I were a novelist now all this would be grist for my mill.
The Forester's DaughterHamlin Garland
Some time after, Bishop asked me if my father would grind her grist for her?
The Witch of SalemJohn R. Musick