gristmill

See also: grist mill

English

From grist +‎ mill.

gristmill (plural gristmills)

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

mill that grinds grain