grist

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
2. isim A group of bees.
3. isim Supply; provision.

   “Matter, as wise logicians say, / Cannot without a form subsist; / And form, say I, as well as they, / Must fail if matter brings no grist.”

4. isim A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
5. isim Ellipsis of grist for the mill.

   “The judge needed a case with the potential for great emotional impact to gain media coverage for his political career. He was running for judgeship on the Nevada Supreme Court. Nicky and I were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were available, vulnerable, and expendable for political grist.”

6. fiil To grind in a mill.

   “[…] and another mill is erecting on the same stream near Sparrow Lake, to which a run of stones for gristing will be added.”