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gristmill
Sign in to saveAlso known as grist mill, flour mill, corn mill, feed mill, flourmill
thumb|upright=1.1|Allied Mills flour mill on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in [[North West England, 2010]]
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thumb|upright=1.1|Allied Mills flour mill on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in [[North West England, 2010]]
A gristmill (also known as a grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated from its chaff in preparation for grinding.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gristmill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.