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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.
To mill meant to grind, and that usually meant to grind grain. Thus most watermills were gristmills. As a noun, mill referred to the building where the milling took place, and consequently the water mill was a building where milling was done using the power of water.o-called 'Greek Mills' used water wheels with a horizontal wheel (and vertical shaft). A Roman Mill features a vertical wheel (on a horizontal shaft). Greek style mills are the older and simpler of the two designs, but only operate well with high water velocities and with small diameter millstones.