m ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mk ml mm mn mo mp mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz

Перевод: millstone

[существительное]
жернов ; бремя
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. Time was rolling over him like a huge millstone, a broad grey abrasive surface turning and turning just above him, crushing him smaller, wearing him away.
2. With the latest rise in interest rates and speculation that more may be to come, that loan is becoming a millstone.
3. Far below ground in the anticline were the Millstone Grits and even deeper were the Carboniferous Limestones.
4. In one tale a women makes a boy into stew; but he has his revenge by becoming a bird and dropping a millstone on her head.
5. The top of the anticline has been worn away, down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others.
6. From the first century AD, the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans, so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel.
7. Sand was deposited which hardened into strata of sandstone, now called Millstone Grit ( Diagram 2 ).
8. The top thousand feet of height is a superstructure composed mainly of millstone grit and shales, with a summit fringe of low cliffs decorated in places by purple saxifrage.
9. There are still a number of old millstones on the site, one of which is a French burr stone boasting "Gloucester Millstone Manufactory" cast onto its balance boxes, as well as a well-worn monolithic stone probably used to grind animal feed.
10. Carboniferous sandstone is also known as Millstone Grit, and this particular "edge" is called Millstone Edge.
11. Below the summit on the west side is Sand Tarn, well known to the millstone workers of old but rarely visited today.
12. The Abbey Mill had been replaced with The Old Mill House (number 2 in Millers Green) in the late 18th century, an original millstone apparently surviving in the cellar to this day.