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Lava millstone

a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine.

See also: Lava

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Water-mills were powered by leats of water carried down oak-lined shoots to drive horizontal wheels attached to lava millstones, the lava imported from the Continent because of its lightness and hardness.