grind·stone

(grīnd′stōn′)

1. A revolving stone disk used for grinding, polishing, or sharpening tools.

2. A millstone.

Idioms:

have/keep (one's) nose to the grindstone

To work hard and steadily.

put (one's) nose to the grindstone

To work in earnest.

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grindstone

(ˈɡraɪndˌstəʊn)

1. (Tools)

a. a machine having a circular block of stone or composite abrasive rotated for sharpening tools or grinding metal

b. the stone used in this machine

c. any stone used for sharpening; whetstone

2. (Tools) another name for millstone

3. keep one's nose to the grindstone have one's nose to the grindstone to work hard and perseveringly

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grind•stone

(ˈgraɪndˌstoʊn)

n.

1. a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.

2. a millstone.

Idioms:

keep or put one's nose to the grindstone, to work, study, or practice hard and steadily.

[1175–1225]

Grindstone

1. A flat circular stone generally about two inches thick and twenty inches in diameter made of naturally occurring sandstone. It could be mounted in a frame and rotated to sharpen bladed tools such as axes and scythes. The sandstone used commercially was carefully chosen to have the right grit and a minimum of hard spots that would cause the stone to wear unevenly.

2. Like the one just described and an axle mounted on a frame and fitted with a handle and/or a foot treadle to rotate the stone.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

grindstone - a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools

sharpener - any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper; "a knife sharpener"

stone - building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"

Translations

حَجَر المِسَن

brusný kotouč

slibesten

Schleifstein

meule meule à aiguiser

hverfisteinn

mola pietra da mola cote macina

slipestein

biley taşı

旋转研磨机砂轮形磨石

grindstone

[ˈgraɪndstəʊn] N → muela f
to keep one's nose to the grindstone → batir el yunque

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

grindstone

[ˈgraɪndstəʊn] n
to keep one's nose to the grindstone → travailler sans relâche

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grindstone

n to keep one’s nose to the grindstone → hart arbeiten; to keep somebody’s nose to the grindstone → jdn hart arbeiten lassen; back to the grindstone → wieder in die Tretmühle (hum)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

grindstone

[ˈgraɪndˌstəʊn] n to keep one's nose to the grindstone → darci sotto or dentro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grind

(graind) – past tense, past participle ground (graund) – verb

1. to crush into powder or small pieces. This machine grinds coffee.

2. to rub together, usually producing an unpleasant noise. He grinds his teeth.

3. to rub into or against something else. He ground his heel into the earth.

noun

boring hard work. Learning vocabulary is a bit of a grind.

ˈgrinder noun

a person or machine that grinds. a coffee-grinder.

ˈgrinding adjective

1. with a sound of grinding. The train came to a grinding stop.

2. severe. grinding poverty.

ˈgrindstone noun

a wheel-shaped stone against which knives are sharpened as it turns.

grind down

to crush. She was ground down by poverty.

grind up

to grind into powder or small pieces. This machine grinds up rocks.

keep (some)one's nose to the grindstone

to (force someone to) work hard, without stopping.

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There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too."

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The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade-- Each working the grindstone in turn: But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed No interest in the concern:

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Besides sawing wood and turning his lathe and grindstone, Daylight connected the power with the churn; but his great triumph was when he put his arm around Dede's waist and led her out to inspect a washing-machine, run by the Pelton wheel, which really worked and really washed clothes.

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That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg--this is effected by the science of weak points and strong.

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I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians); but with much chopping and cutting knotty hard wood, they were all full of notches, and dull; and though I had a grindstone, I could not turn it and grind my tools too.

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Every mile of the way was as familiar to Rebecca as to uncle Jerry; every watering-trough, grindstone, red barn, weather-vane, duck-pond, and sandy brook.

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!

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In the windows at the vacant end of the room stood six or eight, narrow-bladed swords with large protecting guards for the hand, and outside was a man at work sharpening others on a grindstone. He understood his business; for when a sword left his hand one could shave himself with it.

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Not you!" and throwing off other sarcastic sparks from the whirling grindstone of his indignation, Mr.

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Why, you must turn grinder like myself,' said the other; 'you only want a grindstone; the rest will come of itself.

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"As you say, we have had dull times since the steel and grindstone eloped and left us.

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Down below, the rasping sound of rough salt rubbed on rough flesh sounded like the whirring of a grindstone - a steady undertune to the "click-nick" of the knives in the pen; the wrench and schloop of torn heads, dropped liver, and flying offal; the "caraaah" of Uncle Salters's knife scooping away backbones; and the flap of wet, opened bodies falling into the tub.

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