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grindle stone Obs. exc. dial.
Also 3 grindelstane, 4 gryndelston, 5 gryndylston, gryndulstone, 6 gryndel(l stone, 7–8 grindle stone, 8 grindel stone, 9 dial. grindlestun, grunnleston.
[prob. repr. OE. *grindelstán, f. *grindel (instrumental n., f. grindan to grind) + stán stone.]
†1. = grindstone 1. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 332 Þet no mon ne scholde twinnen þe two grindstones [v.r. grindelstanes].
2. = grindstone 2.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2202 Hit clatered in þe clyff..As one vpon a gryndelston hade grounden a syþe. c1400Turnament Totenham 262 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 94 Ther was gryndulstones in gravy, And mylstones in mawmany. a1500Burlesques in Rel. Ant. I. 81 Mylnestons in mortrews have I sene bot fewe; Gryndylstons in grwell with tho blw brothes. 1633B. Jonson Love's Welcome at Welbeck, [They] turn round like grindlestones, Which they dig out fro' the dells. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. ii. 11 What Grindle-stone had that Architect to Sharpen his Tools upon. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Grunston or Grunnleston, a grindstone. 1886Chester Gloss. s.v., Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home; All thi childer are dead but one, And he lies under the grindlestun.
†3. A piece, or kind, of stone suitable for making grindstones. Obs.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 31 Those may be taken as mynes of tynne leed ore cole yronstonne freston mylne stones gryndell stones lymestonne. 1662Irish Acts (1765) II. 408 Grindle stones the chaulder 1l. 10s. 0d. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grindle-stone, a Kind of whitish Greet, of which there are several sorts, some more rough, and others very smooth. |
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