How To Use Quern In A Sentence
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And Parkinson's account is to the same effect: "The seeds hereof, ground between two stones, fitted for the purpose, and called a quern, with some good vinegar added to it to make it liquid and running, is that kind of Mustard that is usually made of all sorts to serve as sauce both for fish and flesh.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Home was where the quern was.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Neolithic tools like points, trapezes and lunates made of chert and chalcedony, besides stone querns and grinders, decorated bone objects, pieces of ochre and human burials were also found here.
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_Fluthwerk_ and 'hydraulicking' would easily wash down the whole alluvial and auriferous formation to the floor of grey granite which has supplied the huge 'cankey-stones' [Footnote: This proto-historic implement, also called a 'saddle-quern,' is here made out of a thick slab of granite slightly concave and artificially roughened.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
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Finds from the room included two querns, a handstone, an iron blade, a terracotta stopper, a loom weight, and a piece of a copper sheet, objects possibly associated with domestic functions.
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Phocnices Cretenfium co* louos, CO nomine fignificart alii arbitrantur, cujus fententis eft Aucnor in eadem radice fna - Phas* nices ab Creta originem traxifle, Cretenfiumte cofoniam Phceniciam cxtitiffe, dicunt aliqui fobodo - ran pofle, ex Phacnico porto, quern infulae Cretae adfcriptifle ferunt Ptolemaeum in ora auftrali.
Collectanea de rebus hibernicis ..
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Crumb-snatcher am I called, and I am the son of Bread-nibbler — he was my stout-hearted father — and my mother was Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The grinding of the grain was done with a grindstone called a Rotary Quern, or a Hand Quern (a small stone on top of a larger stone with the grain in between) if you were poorer.
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Roman debris was left scattered over the surface of the road, including a Roman boot - just the hobnails survive - a quernstone and broken pottery.
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Grinding corn with puddingstone querns was more important to the survival in that area of our Stone Age and Roman ancestors than oil is to us today.
Times, Sunday Times
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She must make the butter and the cheese, grind the wheat in the quern, make and bake the bread, and in all ways earn her livelihood hard enough.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Rotary querns, quantities of cattle bone, shellfish, and carbonized barley grains show the agricultural aspects of everyday life in the settlement.
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Despite meticulous excavation, only two corn-grinding querns were found.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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A woman accustomed to grinding her family's daily allotment of grain on a quern stone would consider flour a convenience food.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Around 3500 BC the keeping of cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats began, along with weaving of cloth and making of pottery; later on came the growing, drying by fire, and milling in querns of grain.
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If we really get serious about all of the bio-fuels outside quern based ethanol.
CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006
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The feeding apparatus consists of a kind of quern for grinding corn, especially maize,
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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The devil did not like to part with it, and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and in the end the devil had to part with the quern.
Types of Children's Literature
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When mills were erected, the authorities destroyed the querns in order to compel the people to go to the mills and pay multure, mill dues.
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Switch grass which is an energy topic I knew nothing about until about a year and a half ago when I started hearing speakers talk about diluted crispness of turning to quern based ethanol which is really energy intensity and ignoring things like switch grass.
CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006
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Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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But we might remember too that the litter and discard which accompany decay are interesting in their heterogeneity: juxtapositions of fibula and quernstone, gold ring and ox scapula in sifting through the cultural rubbish tip.
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Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...
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'It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.'
Popular Tales from the Norse
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No quernstone from any architectural salvage yard was left unturned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The foregoer of a mill was a quern, first moved by the power of water and later by the power of wind.
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Miryam sweeps the milled wheat out of her quern, pours in a new load of kernels.
Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)
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A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
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Surely the quern represents mealtimes, and with it domestic life and the family.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
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We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Coming up beside her, he looked with interest at her own small paper factory: a dozen big, fired-clay basins, each filled with scraps of used paper, worn-out scraps of silk and cotton, flax fibers, the soft pith of cattail reeds, and anything else she could get her hands on that might be useful, torn to shreds or ground small in a quern.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
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Within the border zone on the nearer side of the frontier, the haul of finds during an excavation might consist of two or three shards of Roman pottery, a glass bead or fragment of a glass bangle, some iron fragments, and quernstones.
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Within the border zone on the nearer side of the frontier, the haul of finds during an excavation might consist of two or three sherds of Roman pottery, a glass bead or fragment of a glass bangle, some iron fragments, and quernstones.
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Pottery, flint tools, arrowheads, and quernstones (for grinding cereals) were found.
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The civil centre of the barony was the great farm or grange, with its mill, for in the thirteenth century the Lowlands had water-mills which to the west Highlands were scarcely known in 1745, when the Highland husbandmen were still using the primitive hand-quern of two circular stones.
A Short History of Scotland
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The food contains the grit from the quern stones and the husks of the rough unengineered wheat used to make the bread.
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Other finds include part of a quernstone for milling flour and stones used to sharpen knives.
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The presence of the querns and a sparse but diverse collection of seeds from wheat, pulses, hackberry, olive, and grape suggest that this was an area where the final stage of food-processing took place, perhaps a kitchen.
