gristmill

From grist +‎ mill.

• Rhymes: -ɪl

gristmill (plural gristmills)

1. A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage).

   Alternative form: grist mill

   Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill

   • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11:

     Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.