grist

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A group of bees.
3. (colloquial, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Supply; provision.
4. (countable, uncountable) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, figuratively, uncountable) Ellipsis of grist for the mill.

Verb

To grind in a mill.

Synonyms

milling

malt

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grain

grind

grinding

gulp

harem

herd

hive

intrigue

kennel

kindle

Translations

molienda

Mahlgut

άλεσμα

Herde

Meute

Rotte

Rudel

Schafherde

Schule

🏫

Schwarm

Sprung

الطحين

σιτάρι για άλεσμα

grex

armentum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɪst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: grist

Inherited from Old English: grist

Cognate with Old Saxon: gristgrimmo

Cognate with German: Griesgram

Cognate with Old English: gristel

In summary

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), of obscure origin: possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language, or from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).