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gristmill - a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) milling machinery, grinder, mill - machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing. millstone - one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.
Mill Creek flows through Gladwyne; all but one of its many mills have vanished or are in ruins. The earliest gristmill, begun by 1690, was followed in the eighteenth century by saw, paper, powder, and oil mills and in the nineteenth century by cotton, woolen, lamp wicks, buttons, and gun-parts manufactories.